This unique museum on wheels honors local veterans, volunteers and supporters in the community!
CALIFORNIA — March. 19, 2021 — Wreaths Across America (WAA) is proud to announce that its Mobile Education Exhibit (MEE), which has been traveling the country to honor our nations veterans, will make a tour stop in California. Starting on April 24, 2021, the WAA MEE will be in California for the first of multiple stops.
“The goal of the Wreaths Across America Mobile Education Exhibit is to bring 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.”
The 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 serving as an official ‘welcome home’ station for our nation’s Vietnam Veterans.
Wreaths Across America Introduction Video
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Mobile Education Exhibit Introduction Video
Stops in California will include:
SAN DIEGO, CA – Saturday, April 24, 2021 – The Linares Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will host the WAA MEE for an open house to honor our nation’s veterans and active duty military. The MEE will be located at Harley Davidson, 465 Morena Blvd. from 10am – 4:30pm.
VISTA, CA – Sunday, April 25, 2021 – The Santa Margarita Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will host the WAA MEE for an open house to honor our nation’s veterans and active duty military. The MEE will be located at RideNow SoCal, 1725 Hacienda Dr. from 10am – 4:30pm.
WILDOMAR, CA – Monday, April 26, 2021 – The Luiseno Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will host the WAA MEE for a free open house for the public, to honor our nation’s veterans and active duty military. The MEE will be located at The Lake Elsinore/Wildomar Elks #249 located at 33700 Mission Trial from 1:30pm – 4:30pm.
BAKERFIELD, CA – Thursday, April 29, 2021 – The Bakersfield Chapter and the District XV of California State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution will host the WAA MEE for a free open house for the public, to honor our nation’s veterans and active duty military. The MEE will be located at 1925 Eye Street from 9am – 4pm.
GRASS VALLEY, CA – Saturday, May 1, 2021 – The Captain John Oldham Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will host the WAA MEE for an open house in the parking lot of Safeway Grocery Store located at 110 Neal Street.
WILLOWS, CA – Tuesday and Wednesday, May 4 & 5, 2021 – The VFW and VFW Auxiliary 1770 will host the WAA MEE for an open house to honor our nation’s veterans and active duty military at 525 W. Sycamore Street from 10am – 4pm.
CONCORD, CA – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday May 11, 12 & 13, 2021 – The WAA Location Coordinators of Contra Costa County will host the WAA MEE for an open house to honor our nation’s Veterans and active duty military at the City Hall parking lot at 1950 Parkside Dr., Concord, CA. 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
When the MEE pulls into your area, all 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.
The 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.
To host the MEE in your community, whether it be for a parade, a school-related or veterans’ organization, or a public or private event, visit https://wreathsacrossamerica.
Wreaths Across America is the non-profit organization best known for placing wreaths on veteran’s headstones at Arlington National Cemetery. However, in 2020, the organization placed more than 1.7 million sponsored veterans’ wreaths at 2,557 participating locations nationwide. Throughout the calendar year you can tune in to Wreaths Across America Internet 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.
You can sponsor a veteran’s wreath anytime for $15 at www.wreathacrossamerica.org. 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.
Click here to find a local participating cemetery near you to support go to and type in your town and/or state.
About Wreaths Across America
Wreaths 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.
For more information or to sponsor a wreath please visit www.wreathsacrossamerica.org.
