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2009 National Wreath Project, Honoring our Fallen Heros

On behalf of John and Susan McColley and the SGTMAC Foundation, I would like to thank everyone who volunteered or donated to the SGTMAC Foundation for this year’s Wreath Project. With your assistance, we were able to place 800 wreaths on gravesites at Gettysburg National Cemetery and 2200 wreaths at Quantico National Cemetery where Sergeant Eric McColley of Gettysburg is interred. I would also like to thank Giant Food Stores, ABF Freight Systems, Gettysburg Agway and Jacoby Transportation who all provided substantial logistical and/or financial assistance. On Friday December 4th approximately 75 people showed up at the Giant Store in Gettysburg at 0800 to put stickers on the bows and tie the bows to the wreaths. At 1300 we reassembled at the Gettysburg National Cemetery and placed the wreaths of the gravesites – starting on the section closest to Baltimore Pike. We placed them until we ran out. The following day, December 5th, my wife – Candi, Corporal Jeremy McNear and I arrived at Quantico National Cemetery at 0700 to meet the ABF driver. We positioned the containers that held the wreaths in a light drizzle. By the time the approximately 150 volunteers arrived – there was a steady downpour of rain that continued until we finished placing the 2200 wreaths in sections 11 and 12. We could not do Eric’s section this year due to underground waterlines being installed. The inclement weather did not at all hamper our efforts or “dampen” the spirits of anyone there. It was a …

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