Join us for Wreaths Across America Day on Dec. 13

Come join the CGSC Foundation along with dozens of other volunteer groups and community members on Dec. 13, 2025 at the Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery to celebrate National Wreaths Across America Day by placing wreaths on the graves of fallen veterans. The ceremony starts at 11 a.m. and wreaths will be placed immediately afterward.

Last year approximately 9,000 wreaths were placed in the cemetery, which according to WAA coordinators was tremendous, but they say the goal is always to try and cover all 22,000 graves.

The Wreaths Across America mission is to remember the fallen, honor those who serve and teach the next generation the value of freedom. The CGSC Foundation is one of many sponsor groups for the Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery that works to support this mission. Thanks in advance to everyone that has or will sponsor a wreath through the CGSC Foundation’s WAA website.

To sponsor a wreath visit the CGSC Foundation’s WAA website https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/KS0101P or click the button below. You can sponsor a wreath for the Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery or another national cemetery of your choice.

According to the WAA official website Nov. 28 is the last day to sponsor a wreath for placement on Dec. 13, 2025. Any wreath sponsorships that are paid after that date will roll over to 2026.

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 at thousands of veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond.

The Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery was established in 1862 as one of 14 national cemeteries at that time. Today the cemetery has more than 23,000 graves of veterans representing every conflict since 1812. Notable veterans buried at Fort Leavenworth include Captain James Allen, 1st U.S. Dragoons, who died in August 1846. Allen’s is the oldest known military grave in the cemetery. Also, the remains of Brigadier General Leavenworth, the fort’s namesake, were disinterred from Woodland Cemetery in Delhi, N.Y., and reinterred in the national cemetery on Memorial Day in 1902. Nine Medal of Honor recipients are also buried there, including Capt. Thomas W. Custer, brother of Lt. Col. George Custer. Thomas received the Medal of Honor twice while serving in the U.S. Army, Company B, 6th Michigan Cavalry; first for capturing the flag at Namozine Church, Virginia, on May 3, 1865, and second for actions at Sailor’s Creek, Virginia, April 1865. Custer died in 1876.