Wreaths Across America

Please come out and help us honor our Veterans by laying wreaths for those who protected our freedoms. Due to weather there will not be a ceremony. We will immediately lay approximately 3000 wreaths at 11am.

The national nonprofit Wreaths Across America organization is working hard to ensure no veteran from the Quad City Area is forgotten this holiday season. Individuals who would like to sponsor a wreath can contact Wreaths Across America at www.wreathsacrossamerica.org. This program ensures that the more than 1,600 individuals buried at Rock Island National Cemetery, who served to protect our freedoms and country are not and will never be forgotten.
The cemetery's remembrance ceremony will include the laying of ceremonial wreaths to honor each of the military services, POWs, and all veterans, past and present. The Department of Veteran Affairs works hand-in-hand with the national nonprofit Wreath Across America organization across the country to assist in the remembrance and recognition of our veteran population during the holiday season.
Each year the Wreaths Across America program ensures that remembrance wreaths will be placed at the headstones of fallen veterans at nearly 1,000 locations across the country and overseas.