The morning dawned cold. Well, cold for central North Carolina in mid-December. MOAA member Faith Junghahn, coordinator for the Fuquay-Varina area Wreaths Across America branch, stood at the rear gate of a trailer full of wreaths at the Wake Chapel Christian Church cemetery and again 90 minutes later at the Greenlawn Memorial Garden cemetery, facing the gathered group of hardy volunteers. These Volunteers came from a variety of organizations - a motorcycle club, Lowes home improvement employees, a girls' softball association, scouts, veterans organizations (including MOAA), and others. Some were there to honor and remember a veteran family member. All were there to honor area veterans who were interred in that cemetery with wreaths supplied by the organization. Not visible to the gathered volunteers were the silent supporters; businesses that purchased and donated boxes of wreaths and businesses that stored them at no cost when these wreaths were not silently paying tribute at the final resting place of a local veteran.

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