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SUMMARY:The Wreaths Across America Mobile Education Exhibit National Tour in Navarre
DESCRIPTION:The Wreaths Across America Mobile Education Exhibit National Tour Will Make a Stop in Navarre on Tuesday\, October 5\, 2021\n\n\n\nCLICK HERE TO VOLUNTEERhttp://www.navarrechamber.com/form/view/24355\n\n \n\nNavarre\, Florida (10/5/21) Wreaths Across America (WAA) in Navarre is proud to announce the WAA Mobile Education Exhibit (MEE) National Tour will be at the Navarre United Methodist Church\, 9474 Navarre Parkway\, on Tuesday\, October 5\, 2021 from 9 AM to 6 PM.\n\n \n\nThis free community event is presented by Emerald Coast Wreaths Across America FL0832 and co-hosted by the Navarre Chamber's Military and Veteran Affairs Committee.\n\n \n\n"The goal of the Wreaths Across America Mobile Education Exhibit is to bring the community together and teach patriotism while remembering the service and sacrifice of our nation's heroes\," said Karen Worcester\, Executive Director\, Wreaths Across America. "However\, over the last year\, in light of the current health crisis\, we feel this exhibit has taken on even more meaning by providing the opportunity for people to safely participate in something that is both educational and inspiring\, while supporting and giving back to the communities it visits."\n\n \n\nThe MEE achieves this goal by bringing the local community\, veterans\, active-duty military and their families together through interactive exhibits\, short films\, and shared stories. The exhibit serves as a mobile museum\, educating visitors about the service and sacrifice of our nation's heroes as well as to serve as an official 'welcome home' station for our nation's Vietnam Veterans.\n\n \n\nAll veterans\, active-duty military\, their families\, and the local community members are invited and encouraged to visit\, take a tour and speak with WAA representatives and volunteers. They can also share more about the national nonprofit\, and the work its volunteers do to support our heroes and their communities year-round.\n\n\n\nLEARN MORE HERE\n\n \n\nThe public tours for the MEE are free and open to the public with social distancing\, sanitation and COVID-19 safety procedures in place to protect the health of all visitors in accordance with the CDCs recommendation for large gatherings stemming from concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Members of the media\, dignitaries\, veterans and other interested groups are urged to come\, ask questions\, share stories and experience this one-of-a-kind exhibit.\n\n \n\nWreaths Across America is the non-profit organization best known for placing wreaths on veteran's headstones at Arlington National Cemetery. However\, in 2020 alone\, the organization placed more than 1.7 million sponsored veterans' wreaths at 2\,557 participating locations nationwide.\n\n \n\nThroughout the calendar year you can tune in to Wreaths Across America Radio\, 24/7\, to learn more about the mission and those who support it across the country\, as well as the hundreds of local charitable efforts nationwide that are funded through wreath sponsorships.\n\n \n\nYou can sponsor a veteran's wreath anytime for $15 on the website. Each sponsorship goes toward a live\, balsam wreath that will be placed on the headstone of an American hero as we endeavor to honor all veterans laid to rest at noon on Saturday\, December 18\, 2021\, as part of National Wreaths Across America Day.\n\n \n\n###\n\n \n\nAbout Wreaths Across America\n\n \n\nWreaths Across America is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded to continue and expand the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery begun by Maine businessman Morrill Worcester in 1992. The organization's mission Remember\, Honor\, Teach is carried out in part each year by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in December at Arlington\, as well as thousands of veterans' cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond.\n\n \n\nSponsor Wreath(s)\n\n\n\n \n\nPress Contacts:\n\n \n\nJoy Cicero\, Group Leader\, WAA Volunteer\n\n850-736-2862\n\n \n\nChanda Ryan\, President/CEO\, Navarre Chamber\n\n850.939.3267\n\n \n\nNational WAA HQ (All other inquiries)\n\nSean Sullivan\, Wreaths Across America Public Relations Liaison\n\n207-230-4599\n\n \n\nNOTE TO MEDIA AND PRESS MATERIALS:\n\n \n\nStefan Brann\, Driver of the Wreaths Across America Mobile Education Exhibit\n\nDon Queeney\, MEE program coordinator\n\nJoy and Don Cicero\, Navarre Location Coordinators\n\nChanda Ryan\, President/CEO: Navarre Chamber\n\nSteve Rhodes\, Chair\, Navarre Chamber Military & Veteran Affairs Committee
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Wreaths Across America Mobile Education Exhibit National Tour \;Will Make a Stop in Navarre on Tuesday\, October 5\, 2021
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\nCLICK HERE TO VOLUNTEERhttp://www.navarrechamber.com/form/view/24355
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\nNavarre\, Florida &mdash\; (10/5/21) &mdash\; Wreaths Across America (WAA) in Navarre is proud to announce the WAA Mobile Education Exhibit (MEE) National Tour will be at the Navarre United Methodist Church\, 9474 Navarre Parkway\, on Tuesday\, October 5\, 2021 from 9 AM to 6 PM.
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\nThis free community event is presented by Emerald Coast Wreaths Across America FL0832 and co-hosted by the Navarre Chamber'\;s Military and Veteran Affairs Committee.
\n \;
\n&ldquo\;The goal of the Wreaths Across America Mobile Education Exhibit is to bring the community together and teach patriotism while remembering the service and sacrifice of our nation&rsquo\;s heroes\,&rdquo\; said Karen Worcester\, Executive Director\, Wreaths Across America. &ldquo\;However\, over the last year\, in light of the current health crisis\, we feel this exhibit has taken on even more meaning by providing the opportunity for people to safely participate in something that is both educational and inspiring\, while supporting and giving back to the communities it visits.&rdquo\;
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\nThe MEE achieves this goal by bringing the local community\, veterans\, active-duty military and their families together through interactive exhibits\, short films\, and shared stories. The exhibit serves as a mobile museum\, educating visitors about the service and sacrifice of our nation&rsquo\;s heroes as well as to serve as an official &lsquo\;welcome home&rsquo\; station for our nation&rsquo\;s Vietnam Veterans.
\n \;
\nAll veterans\, active-duty military\, their families\, and the local community members are invited and encouraged to visit\, take a tour and speak with WAA representatives and volunteers. They can also share more about the national nonprofit\, and the work its volunteers do to support our heroes and their communities year-round.
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\nLEARN MORE HERE
\n \;
\nThe public tours for the MEE are free and open to the public with social distancing\, sanitation and COVID-19 safety procedures in place to protect the health of all visitors in accordance with the CDCs recommendation for large gatherings stemming from concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Members of the media\, dignitaries\, veterans and other interested groups are urged to come\, ask questions\, share stories and experience this one-of-a-kind exhibit.
\n \;
\nWreaths Across America is the non-profit organization best known for placing wreaths on veteran&rsquo\;s headstones at Arlington National Cemetery. However\, in 2020 alone\, the organization placed more than 1.7 million sponsored veterans&rsquo\; wreaths at 2\,557 participating locations nationwide.
\n \;
\nThroughout the calendar year you can tune in to Wreaths Across America Radio\, 24/7\, to learn more about the mission and those who support it across the country\, as well as the hundreds of local charitable efforts nationwide that are funded through wreath sponsorships.
\n \;
\nYou can sponsor a veteran&rsquo\;s wreath anytime for $15 on the website. Each sponsorship goes toward a live\, balsam wreath that will be placed on the headstone of an American hero as we endeavor to honor all veterans laid to rest at noon on Saturday\, December 18\, 2021\, as part of National Wreaths Across America Day.
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\nAbout Wreaths Across America
\n \;
\nWreaths Across America is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded to continue and expand the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery begun by Maine businessman Morrill Worcester in 1992. The organization&rsquo\;s mission &ndash\; Remember\, Honor\, Teach &ndash\; is carried out in part each year by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in December at Arlington\, as well as thousands of veterans&rsquo\; cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond.
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\nSponsor Wreath(s)
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\nPress Contacts:
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\nJoy Cicero\, Group Leader\, WAA Volunteer
\n850-736-2862
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\nChanda Ryan\, President/CEO\, Navarre Chamber
\n850.939.3267
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\nNational WAA HQ (All other inquiries)
\nSean Sullivan\, \;Wreaths Across America &ndash\; Public Relations Liaison
\n207-230-4599
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\nNOTE TO MEDIA AND PRESS MATERIALS:
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\nStefan Brann\, Driver of the Wreaths Across America Mobile Education Exhibit
\nDon Queeney\, MEE program coordinator
\nJoy and Don Cicero\, Navarre Location Coordinators
\nChanda Ryan\, President/CEO: Navarre Chamber
\nSteve Rhodes\, Chair\, Navarre Chamber Military &\; Veteran Affairs Committee
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