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Thanks for wreaths

Sun., Jan. 1, 2017

I am proud to be an American veteran. Thank you Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers and staff (Jessica and John) for your support of “Wreaths Across America” by hanging the National Wreath and by placing wreaths on the graves of our veterans on Dec. 19 in very cold weather at the Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake.

Individual organizations, like the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Washington State Veterans Cemetery, raise money to place the wreaths every year at local cemeteries.

Matt Cunningham, U.S. Army, retired

Spokane

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