Wreaths Across America Day: Events In Belleville, Bloomfield

BELLEVILLE, NJ — The following news release comes courtesy of the Belleville Historical Society. Find out how to post announcements or events to your local Patch site.

Saturday, Dec. 14 is Wreaths Across America Day and thousands of volunteers will be setting millions of wreaths on the graves of veterans buried in cemeteries across America.

Locally, the Belleville Historical Society will host two ceremonies: the first at St. Peter's Church cemetery at 155 William Street in Belleville at noon, and the second at Glendale Cemetery, 28 Hoover Avenue in Bloomfield in the veterans circle at 1:30 p.m.

At Glendale Cemetery, the society will set wreaths in the northwest corner where more than one hundred young soldiers who were killed in World War 2, Korea and Vietnam rest side by side. Afterwards, society members travel to set wreaths at the graves at more than a dozen other cemeteries where young men from Belleville and Nutley who were killed in action are buried.

Wreaths can be sponsored for $17. For more information, contact Michael Perrone at bellevillehistory@gmail.com or 201-687-1431.

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