Wreaths Across American

The Wreaths Across America Chapter, Camp Nelson National Cemetery, is partnering with a non-profit for the rest of the month benefiting military and veteran charities.

Deputy location Coordinator, Joellen Hayden, joins us by phone with the details.

Receipt showers and storms tomorrow before we dry up ... as we head into the weekend ... thank was of the wreaths across america.

Chapter kent nelson national ... materials with a nonprofit ... rest of the month for the ... benefiting military and veterans.

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We work at camp nelson national carry ... .

We also have a partnership with fisher.

How and a fisher how is ... a respite home for ... families of veterans as their veterans are being treated in the veteran little so course, we have a va half little here in lexington and there's going to be a fisher health bill right on the camp of the va hospital to very ... bestial year for that is your health because they will break ground and start construction fall ... .

Now the way these two groups ... are connected is that ... the way we get the reef to put on the grave.

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The sponsored ... by someone ... and in fact this in this case we have a partnership with fisher how, where, if you ... want to reach for camp nelson five dollars will be donated to the fisher help construction project you can go to our website ... reese camp nelson.org.

That's reef with and if camp nelson.org all run together and you can see right on our homepage how the ... paris ... and also you can read a girl down you can see about our partnership with fisher how well ... it dual donation ... we call it good or twice so really it's a ... it's a real heartwarming thing.

And here we are the middle of a hot ... summer of people aren't even thinking about december, but a ... but fisher house in their group ... really ... deeming a way to ... get to the ... milestone of getting to break ground.

The course we all ... though are beginning our reach campaign perfect time to talk about it ... what makes this ... sort ... one is such an ... opportunity to really ... honor our veterans to sacrifice ... so much ... well, the mission of wreaths across america is remember honor ... teach so ... we want to remember ... our veterans were core ... were honoring them and also the military family ... partnered with them in and give so much of their own ... and then we want to teach ... our young people about ... the value of freedom and what i takes ... to stay a free country and these veterans and their sacrifices are the ultimate answer to that question.

So that mission ... .

Remember honor teach ... really is the year-round core ... but that's what's so important.

And when we lay the three ... this really is very moving end and we have people who ... have loved ones, family members buried at camp.

No ... , they don't (maybe in central kentucky.

Maybe they live in iowa or florida and they can sponsor a brief, they can ask that it be laid on ... that headstone, particularly an ... they could know the ... air the person that they love the ... family member has been honored and remembered that year and we also when we ... leave the reef ... we say the name of the person o the headstone and there is a expression that you're never truly forgotten ... until your name is never ... that again.

And of course this means for and i think for the young people that help volunteers to help lay the reef.

We have high school cadet help the really learning that this ... goes back in time that the call were all connected in this way when they that name ... .

They realize that there was someone a real live person like themselves.

Maybe not even ... more than a few years older than they were who gave their life is ... short ... like ... that everyone here, we will post those very important details an information on what ... type ... w t v q.com ... like a joellen ... for talking