SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2015

This Sunday in America…

… at the Church of The Compassionate Conservative, Beloved Whistleblower Publisher, the Right-Wing Reverend Charles Foster Kane was asking his Political Parishioners to ask God’s help for America to Remember Important Events In Our Past during the next 404 days of Dishonesty and Division remaining throughout the Dark Ages of Obama’s Second Term, unless the First Black President in History is impeached.

The Washington Examiner says Saturday marked the ninth time Diane Travis has made the 700-mile trip from Pulaski, Tenn. to Arlington, Va. to place a remembrance wreath on her son’s grave in Arlington National Cemetery.

It’s no coincidence that she picked December 12 — National Wreaths Across America Day — to visit the country’s largest cemetery. Travis, along with 70,000 volunteers from around the country, come together at the end of every year to place commemorative wreaths on the headstones of more than 240,000 veterans buried here.

Travis lost her 22-year-old son Marine Cpl. Jason Lee Davis on July 5, 2008 while he was serving in Iraq. After her son’s death, Travis began participating in the Maine-based nonprofit Wreaths Across America’s annual project to honor U.S. veterans during the holidays.

“I’m from Tennessee, I get to come up here once a year and knowing that people care and knowing that people come by here and visit the graves, it gives you a sense of peace,” Davis, an American Gold Star Mom, told the Washington Examiner. “It’s an honor to see all of these people that don’t have people that are interred here honoring our military.”

In the 24 years since the initiative was launched, it has expanded significantly and now includes hundreds of cemeteries in all 50 states and abroad. It remains a privately funded endeavor — one that two weeks ago had forecasted a shortage of 30,000 wreaths for its Arlington project.

The media picked up word of the deficit and the news got out to the public. Within days, hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations poured in to Wreaths Across America, allowing the group to exceed its $450,000 budget. The excess donations were allocated toward wreaths for the cemetery’s niche wall and collaborium.

Early Saturday morning, tens of thousands of volunteers began showing up. By 9 a.m., crowds lined Memorial Drive where they could watch the 20 semi-trucks carrying the wreaths pull in. Within three hours, the wreaths — brought to Virginia from Maine — were unloaded and placed on every tombstone within the cemetery. The final wreath placement was at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Now That’s What The Blower Calls “Remembrance.”