Wreaths Across America (WAA) makes another appearance in
Windham as they return to Maine and Columbia Falls to drop off the vehicles for
another year.
After the receiving great fanfare on Sunday, December 10
the Wreaths Across America convoy made a brief stop at the Windham Veteran
Center (WVC) on Monday, Dec 18 to place wreaths in the Center’s Memorial
Garden.
The WAA team had their traditional breakfast at Chutes in
North Windham and then proceeded with horns blaring through North Windham to
the WVC. At the WVC, Lil Charron, the events coordinator for WAA passed out
seven wreaths, each representing a military service to a veteran from that
branch of service and one pow wreath.
The wreaths were then placed in the snow-covered garden
on the veteran’s stone that had the appropriate service logo affixed to the
stone. After the brief ceremony, all returned to the warmth of the WVC for
coffee.
Charron took the opportunity to pass out a wreath to each
veteran and to honor the Vietnam-era Veterans assembled with a WAA T-shirt and
cap.
Charron indicated that this was her last WAA trip as the
event coordinator and that she would be moving back to the Cumberland area to
be near family.
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