Saturday morning, a handful of members from the Adams-Onis Treaty Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) gathered under a shady tree in the Oakland Cemetery.
They were joined by a few citizens and the reigning Mrs. Florida America, Eddah Wanyoike. The group had assembled to lay Christmas wreaths on veterans’ gravesites in that cemetery and in the Oakland-Tildenville Cemetery where Black veterans were laid to rest. Seventy-two veterans are buried in the town’s two cemeteries, according to a press release the Winter Garden-based DAR chapter had issued about the event.
Chapter Regent Wanda Kenney opened the brief ceremony, saying that they were there “to remember the fallen, honor those that have served and their families and to teach the next generation the value of our freedom.”…