Wreaths Across America at Gate of Heaven Cemetery

Wreaths Across America 2024 Theme: Live With Purpose

Each year, millions of volunteers and patriots gather in local, state, and national cemeteries across all 50 states and abroad to pay tribute to our nation’s servicemembers and their families. This year’s theme, “Live with Purpose,” draws inspiration from the remarkable stories of these volunteers whose impactful work in their communities is a beacon of inspiration for all.

Karen Worcester, Executive Director of Wreaths Across America, shared her thoughts on why this theme is so important. “Over the course of the last year, and then especially on the escort to Arlington last December, I listened to people who had gone through great adversity, and they’d taken that adversity and turned it around as a call to action to spend the rest of their lives making sure that every day was meaningful and that they lived with purpose,” said Worcester. “For me, to live with purpose is a mindset.”

As part of this year’s theme, WAA has been sharing a monthly video series and corresponding lesson plans that speak to the 10 bouquets that make up a veteran’s wreath – these are the 10 attributes or characteristics that WAA believes define our nation’s servicemembers – a symbol of honor, respect and victory.

In 2023, over three million sponsored veterans’ wreaths were placed by volunteers on headstones at 4,225 participating locations worldwide. Wreaths Across America volunteers tirelessly work year-round to Remember, Honor, and Teach, with each name spoken out loud in grateful acknowledgment of the sacrifices made by our veterans for our freedoms.

Follow the impactful stories of those volunteers and supporters living with purpose throughout the year using the hashtag #LiveWithPurpose and tune in to Wreaths Across America Radio, available on the iHeart Radio app, TuneIn, and the Audacy app, or listen at www.wreathsacrossameric.org/radio.

This year, National Wreaths Across America Day will be held on Saturday, December 14, 2024.

We will honor this day and the mission again here at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, 11000 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45249 in section 28, Veterans Garden of the cemetery, starting at 12:05pm after our Bell Tower rings.

This is a free event open to all, and we encourage our community to participate by volunteering locally or sponsoring and donating a wreath for an American hero, or multi wreaths for the 7000 American heroes interred here at Gate of Heaven Cemetery.

If any wreaths are to be laid at veterans’ gravesites, they are all from donations of those who go to the Wreaths Across America website and place their orders to donate for a specific location like the Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Cincinnati as a participating “location.”

If you would like to donate one wreath, or multi wreaths, for any veteran(s) and or a specific veteran interred at Gate of Heaven, go to www.wreathsacrossamerica.org.

LOCATION ID# OHCGOH is for Gate of Heaven Cemetery Cincinnati

SPONSORSHIP ID# OH0289P is for CLERMONT COUNTY COMPOSITE SQUADRON CIVIL AIR PARTROL

That ID# OH02289P needs to be included in the process of your order/donation to benefit our local Clermont County YOUTH Composite Squadron Civil Air Patrol.

Hopefully, this instruction will help you, or you can call WAA directly, and use the ID#s above for Location and Sponsorship.

You can contact them through phone and postal: Customer Operations Hours: M-F, 730a-830p e.s.t. and Saturday from 10a-6p e.s.t.

Toll Free: 877-385-9504

Fax: 866-956-1625

Headquarters: 4 Point Street Columbia Falls, ME 04623

Mailing: PO BOX 249 Columbia Falls, ME 04623

OR GO TO:

www.wreathsacrossamerica.org

• 1) Scroll down to the very bottom of their main opening page.
• 2) On the bottom left you will see Locations and Groups, click on that.
• 3) Then click on Location and Local Sponsorship Group Search
• 4) You will see 2 circles, then click on circle of Local Sponsorship Group
• 5) Then enter in that Sponsorship Group line ID# OH0289P
• 6) You will then see OH0289P – CLERMONT COUNTY COMPOSITE SQUADRON – CIVIL AIR PARTROL
• 8) Click on Sponsor and then you may enter your kind, donation/order.

This key local “Sponsor” here at Gate of Heaven the past four years has been OH0289P Clermont County Composite Squadron, Civil Air Patrol. For every wreath ordered/donated using their sponsor ID# OH0289P, five dollars ($5) will go back to their youth squadron and their mission. They are, OUR future!

Thank you so much for supporting Wreaths Across America and their Mission in your community location at Gate of Heaven Cemetery and through a wonderful, local, youth, sponsor organization ~ the Civil Air Patrol Squadron ~ to continue the WAA mission to: REMEMBER, HONOR and TEACH, and to LIVE WITH PURPOSE! God bless our USA!

If you have any questions, please contact WAA: 1-877-385-9504 or helpdesk@wreathsacrossamerica.org