BATON ROUGE – On Saturday, people will gather to clear wreaths off of thousands of headstones at Baton Rouge National Cemetery. The help of volunteers is needed in honoring those buried in veterans’ cemeteries, both on the national and state level.
Back in December, Blue Star Mothers of Louisiana worked with Wreaths Across America to decorate every headstone in Baton Rouge National Cemetery. Now, the organization needs the public’s help to clean up the site.
“Unbelievably, we received 5,100 wreaths. It’s the first time that we’ve ever been able to do that,” Blue Star Mothers of Louisiana Chapter One President Denise Singleton said. “We will come out with volunteers and we won’t know how many will show up until tomorrow morning and we will have to remove these 5,091 wreaths.”…