Staff Writer
Despite the bitter cold wind that was sweeping the Maine Veterans’ Cemetery in Caribou on a recent Dec. afternoon, veterans who lay at rest were honored by their comrades as part of the Wreaths Across America program.
Over the past 17 years, Morrill and Karen Worcester, owners of the Worcester Wreath Company in Harrington have donated over 90,000 wreaths to be placed at Arlington Cemetery and by volunteers at over 200 veterans cemeteries in every state, to 24 veterans’ cemeteries on foreign soil and to U.S. Navy ships at sea.
U.S. Senator Susan Collins stated in a letter sent to the Lister-Knowlton VFW Post 9389 in Caribou, “Wreaths Across America honors our fallen heroes, but it does even more. It tells the veterans still with us that we honor their service. It tells the families of the departed that we share their loss. It tells our men and women in uniform today that we are grateful for their courage, sacrifice and devotion to duty; and it teaches our children the price that has been paid for our freedom.”
Participating in the presentation of wreaths, that were placed in front of the flagpole at the Maine Veterans’ Cemetery, in honor of those who served in each division of the U.S. Armed Forces and the MIA/POWs were: Andy Olson, Lloyd Woods, Carroll St. Pierre, Andy Dumais, Darrel Rouse, Phil Bosse and Peter Meisburger.
Carroll St. Pierre places a wreath representing the United States Marine Corps at the base of the flagpole in the Maine Veterans’ Cemetery in Caribou.
Aroostook Republican photos/ B. Scott
Darrell Rouse steps forward to place a wreath at the Maine Veterans’ Cemetery in Caribou during the recent Wreaths Across American program.
