Honoring Veterans with Holiday Wreaths
Kennesaw City Cemetery will again participate in National Wreaths Across America Day, with a noon ceremony followed by wreath placement across the grounds. Each year, veterans wreaths are laid thanks to contributions from local volunteers and sponsorship groups, each one placed in recognition of a life spent in service.
The ceremony is co-sponsored by the Kennesaw Cemetery Commission and the Kennesaw Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, who lead this annual observance each year. The program features remarks from Mayor Derek Easterling, along with participation from local lineage societies, JROTC and Scout representatives, veterans, active service members, and families. Once the formal remarks conclude, attendees help place wreaths at veterans graves, often pausing to read each name aloud. Comfortable shoes are a good idea, since the afternoon involves more walking than a typical holiday shopping trip.
Date:
Saturday, December 19, 2026
Time:
12 pm to 1:30 pm
Admission:
Free
Address:
Kennesaw City Cemetery
3000 Cemetery Street
Kennesaw GA 30144
About Wreaths Across America
Wreaths Across America is a nonprofit organization founded in 2007, dedicated to remembering, honoring, and teaching about our nation’s veterans through annual wreath-laying ceremonies nationwide. Though critics have raised conflict of interest concerns because the charity buys its wreaths exclusively from the for-profit Worcester Wreath Company owned by the same Maine family, the Worcesters, that started the nonprofit. Critics complain that money donated to the nonprofit largely flows to the for-profit Worcester Wreath Company. From “Wreaths Across America Has Family-Ties To Its Supplier”. –WSJ, July 11, 2017.