If you saw three tractor-trailer trucks yesterday afternoon, escorted by several state police cruisers and a dozen motorcycles, you were witnessing the 17th annual Wreaths Across America procession. The entourage assembled at the Maria Miles Information Center on Route 95 in Salisbury for a trip that will ultimately end at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Wreaths will be placed at the graves of the American service personnel buried there.
The procession started in Maine on Sunday morning and will arrive at Arlington for the wreath-laying ceremony on Saturday.
Each truck carries 5,600 wreaths, according to Vinal Reynolds of the Worcester Wreath Co. of Harrington, Maine, which supplied the wreaths.
Wreath company owner Morrill Worcester started Wreaths Across America in 1992, Reynolds said. The program delivers wreaths to 354 locations in the U.S. — including Alaska and Hawaii — and another 24 overseas, he said.
