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"My husband was a veteran. He served for seven years in the Navy, attended the U.S. Naval Academy and is buried here in section three. It's not just about laying the wreath, it's also about saying their name and remembering each veteran," Jane Good said.

"People ask me, well, why do you do it? Why do you go to all this work of raising the money to do this? And it's to honor the veterans out here," Patrick Palmersheim with the Iowa Veterans Cemetery said.

Locally our heroes were remembered and honored as families and volunteers placed over 4,250 wreaths in December. At 11 a.m. on Friday Feb. 10 at the Iowa Veterans Cemetery, the wreaths will be retire…

Volunteers at the Iowa Veterans Cemetery in Adel, Iowa, laid more than 4,000 wreaths around the cemetery in honor of veterans this holiday season.

Capt. James O. Perrine's remains were unclaimed for 35 years.