{"id":492,"date":"2015-10-01T20:34:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T00:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/?p=492"},"modified":"2024-02-13T08:25:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:25:35","slug":"wreaths-across-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wreaths-across-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Wreaths Across America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SPC Student Veterans lead charge to help honor fallen service members through wreaths<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seminole, FL<\/strong> \u2013 Members from the St. Petersburg College Student Veterans Association are taking on the task of raising money to put the wreaths on the graves of fallen service members at Bay Pines National Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>The group participated in the placing of the wreaths at the cemetery last year during the holiday season and was disappointed in the amount of graves that were left without a wreath.\u00a0 Only 800 of the roughly 33,000 graves at Bay Pines had a wreath for the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a great opportunity to participate in the event but it was disappointing to see so many gravesites with no wreaths\u201d said Parapon.<\/p>\n<p>The Student Veterans Association is partnering with Wreaths Across America\u00a0on this project.<\/p>\n<p>This is a large task and student vets are asking for the support of individuals and local businesses to help accomplish the mission.\u00a0 Donations for wreaths can be made on the Wreaths Across America <a href=\"http:\/\/waa.convio.net\/goto\/studentveterans\">website<\/a>\u00a0and for every 2 wreaths bought for the Bay Pines Cemetery, a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> will be placed at the location for no additional cost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cost of freedom is visible at Bay Pines and a wreath for the holidays is just a small token of appreciation for those sacrifices\u201d Parapon added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/10\/1458566_10152918346753205_6269763727015343367_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-493\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/10\/1458566_10152918346753205_6269763727015343367_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"1458566_10152918346753205_6269763727015343367_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/10\/1458566_10152918346753205_6269763727015343367_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/10\/1458566_10152918346753205_6269763727015343367_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/10\/10392553_10152918347648205_5344913850999606867_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-494\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/10\/10392553_10152918347648205_5344913850999606867_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"10392553_10152918347648205_5344913850999606867_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/10\/10392553_10152918347648205_5344913850999606867_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/10\/10392553_10152918347648205_5344913850999606867_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/10\/wreaths-flyer.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-498\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/10\/wreaths-flyer-232x300.jpeg\" alt=\"wreaths flyer\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/10\/wreaths-flyer-232x300.jpeg 232w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/10\/wreaths-flyer-791x1024.jpeg 791w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/10\/wreaths-flyer.jpeg 849w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPC Student Veterans lead charge to help honor fallen service members through wreaths Seminole, FL \u2013 Members from the St. Petersburg College Student Veterans Association are taking on the task of raising money to put the wreaths on the graves of fallen service members at Bay Pines National Cemetery. The group participated in the placing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wreaths-across-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wreaths Across America<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Wreaths Across America - Veterans Services<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wreaths-across-america\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wreaths Across America - Veterans Services\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SPC Student Veterans lead charge to help honor fallen service members through wreaths Seminole, FL \u2013 Members from the St. Petersburg College Student Veterans Association are taking on the task of raising money to put the wreaths on the graves of fallen service members at Bay Pines National Cemetery. 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