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Recognizes and describes the Wreaths Across America project, its mission (“Remember, Honor, and Teach”), and its long-standing traditions of donating, transporting, and placing veterans’ remembrance wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery and other sites nationwide and overseas. Notes the project’s scale (millions of wreaths delivered to thousands of locations), volunteer and trucking-industry participation, a week-long parade between Maine and Virginia, and designated observances in December 2024 and December 2025; the resolution is ceremonial and contains no funding or regulatory requirements.
The resolution offers symbolic national recognition for veterans and encourages widespread volunteer remembrance, while making no policy changes and imposing only modest local logistical burdens on some host communities.
Veterans nationwide receive continued public recognition through wreath-laying traditions at Arlington and local ceremonies, reinforcing honor and remembrance of their service.
Hundreds of thousands of community volunteers and families gain opportunities for civic participation and local remembrance activities each December.
The trucking industry and volunteer drivers receive public recognition for supporting nationwide logistics of the event, highlighting their role in facilitating the project.
Host communities and local taxpayers may face modest added municipal burdens (traffic control, escorts, cleanup) when large escorts and ceremonies draw public attention.
The measure is purely honorary and creates no policy, funding, or programmatic changes, so it imposes no substantive benefits or legal obligations for citizens.
Introduced December 11, 2025 by Susan Margaret Collins · Last progress December 11, 2025