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Michele Trynor

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Michele Trynor

We speak with Michele Trynor Location Coordinator for Wreaths Across America at  Browns’s Hill Cemetery in South Portland. They will be joining in the effort to support the mission to Remember, Honor, Teach, as an official location for 2021. This is the FIRST, year that the cemetery will participate in this national event.

Those interested in volunteering for Wreaths Across America, or sponsoring a wreath Brown’s Hill Cemetery, are invited to visit https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/mebrhl to learn more. National
Wreaths Across America Day is a free, non-political, community event open to all people. Wreaths Across America is the non-profit organization best known for placing veterans’ wreaths on the headstones of our nation’s fallen at Arlington National Cemetery. However, the organization, in total, places more than 1.7 million sponsored wreaths at 2557 participating locations nationwide and offers other programs throughout the calendar year. These programs include The Mobile Education Exhibit
and Wreaths Across America Radio, among other education programs.

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