SALISBURY, Md. — Perdue Farms, and its skilled truck drivers, performed a public wreath-laying ceremony on the Wicomico Struggle Veterans Memorial in Salisbury, Md., as a part of the corporate’s annual participation within the Wreaths Throughout America custom of recognizing our fallen heroes in the course of the vacation season.
The ceremony included the position of seven ceremonial wreaths on the memorial by Perdue drivers, who’re veterans themselves, and who will assist ship hundreds of wreaths to veterans’ cemeteries on the East Coast.
“Wreaths Throughout America asks us, within the midst of all the vacation actions, to recollect our fallen navy, together with these from our group who’re memorialized on the Wicomico Veterans Struggle Memorial,” stated Jim Perdue, chairman of Perdue Farms. “This time of yr, we additionally consider the hundreds of people who find themselves serving within the navy and their households. Our drivers’ participation in Wreaths Throughout America encourages us all to share and present our respect.”
Perdue’s partnership with Wreaths Throughout America is a part of its Delivering Hope to Our Neighbors® outreach to enhance high quality of life and construct robust communities.
Wreaths Throughout America was born in 2006 out of a want to recollect and honor American service members for his or her contributions in preserving our freedom. Morrill Worcester and the Worcester Wreath Firm of Harrington, Maine, had the imaginative and prescient for this mission and positioned the primary wreaths. It has since turn into an annual custom to put wreaths on the grave-markers of our fallen veterans throughout December to specific our appreciation and to pay tribute for the sacrifices made for our nation by our service women and men.
Since 2007, Perdue drivers have delivered greater than 350,000 wreaths for Wreaths Throughout America. This yr, Perdue drivers delivered greater than 25,000 wreaths to cemeteries from New York to Florida as a part of Nationwide Wreaths Throughout America Day on Dec. 16. Their journey contains deliveries to the USA Naval Academy in Annapolis, the USA Army Academy West Level Cemetery in New York, Arlington Nationwide Cemetery in Arlington, Va., and the Wicomico Struggle Veterans Memorial, and extra.
“Perdue Farms and Perdue Transportation drivers, lots of whom are veterans themselves, have been supporting the Wreaths Throughout America mission for greater than a decade. We’re very pleased with our drivers and of their very own navy service,” stated Derek Leitner, co-chair of the Perdue Affiliate Veterans Useful resource Group. “The care, consideration and dedication our drivers give to the mission and their payload is spectacular.”
In-built 2002 completely with donations from the group, the Wicomico Struggle Veterans Memorial honors these with a house of document in Wicomico County who misplaced their lives whereas defending the nation and our freedom. The names of 191 males from World Struggle I to current day are displayed on bronze plaques on a brick wall with the phrases “Right here we mark the value of freedom.” Flags from every department of the navy, the POW/MIA flag, county, state, and U.S. flags are flown across the clock to finish the memorial.
The Memorial not solely publicly honors our fallen, but it surely additionally gives a visual remembrance for relations to go to and know that others respect their sacrifice. Public ceremonies are held on the Memorial annually on Memorial Day and Veterans Day.
