Notice! Calling all Patriots!!
On Saturday December 16th, 2023, at 12:00 noon, the Cincinnati Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution (CCSAR) will be participating in the Wreaths Across America event.
Join SAR in Spring Grove and Greenwood Cemeteries for this Wreaths Across America Event
CCSAR will participate at Spring Grove Cemetery (Cincinnati) and Greenwood Cemetery (Hamilton, Ohio).
For folks in eastern Cincinnati, on Friday at 10:00 AM there will be a separate service at the Veterans Home in Georgetown, Ohio sponsored by the Highlands Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. This will permit veterans who are residents to participate in the event.
Below is a proclamation of SAR participation in the event by our SAR Leadership John L. Dodd.
SAR members, their families, friends and the general public are welcome to participate in this event.
This is a wonderful event. The participants are asked to place wreaths on the graves of almost 700 Civil War veterans who passed away during their stay at the Camp Dennison Civil War Hospital facilities. Share in a part of American and Cincinnati history and honor those who gave all for our country.
Past wreath laying on the graves of Civil War veterans by event participants
Locations are below:
Saturday December 16th – 12:00 Noon
Spring Grove Cemetery – Wreath Placement Ceremony (Civil War Section #21)
4521 Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
Greenwood Cemetery – Wreath Placement Ceremony
602 Greenwood Avenue, Hamilton, OH
Friday – December 15th – 10:00 AM
The Ohio Veterans Home Ceremony
2003 Veterans Blvd, Georgetown, Ohio (2nd floor meeting room)
National Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution
PROCLAMATION
2023 Wreaths Across America
WHEREAS, Wreaths Across America coordinates wreath-laying ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, as well as at more than 3,400 additional locations in all 50 states, at sea and abroad; and,
WHEREAS, the mission of Wreaths Across America is to remember the fallen, honor those who serve and teach our children the value of freedom; and
WHEREAS, Wreaths Across America has chosen “SERVE AND SUCCEED” as its 2023 theme to encourage everyone to become involved in their own communities to serve and succeed in their own ways; and,
WHEREAS, one of the patriotic, historical, and education purposes of the Sons of the American Revolution is “to perpetuate the memory of those individuals who, by their services or sacrifices during the war of the American Revolution, achieved the independence of the American people;” and,
WHEREAS, the Sons of the American Revolution seeks to foster cooperative arrangements with patriotic organizations such as Wreaths Across America in pursuit of our common goals to honor, respect, and support veterans, and to inspire our communities to “a more profound reverence for the principles of the government founded by our forefathers;” and,
WHEREAS, Saturday, December 16, 2023, which also is the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, has been designated by Wreaths Across America as the date for these wreath laying ceremonies to occur;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, John L. Dodd, President General of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, encourage all Compatriots to join with the more than two million volunteers and supporters of Wreaths Across America and other patriotic, community, and veteran’s organizations, on Saturday, December 16, 2023 to participate in wreath-laying ceremonies and activities and find individual ways to SERVE AND SUCCEED in your own communities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution this twenty-seventh day of November, two thousand twenty-three and the two hundred and forty-eighth year of the signing of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
