Cadets lay wreaths at service members' graves
Wreaths were laid at Rochester and area cemeteries. 7:00 am, Dec. 20, 2020 × Civil Air Patrol Cadet Chief Master Sgt. Joseph Meyer lays a wreath on a veterans grave as part of Wreaths Across America Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, at Oakwood Cemetery in Rochester. (Joe Ahlquist / jahlquist@postbulletin.com) The cadet laid a wreath near the gravestone, took two steps back and saluted. The ritual only lasted a dozen seconds or so. And then the cadet was off to the next gravesite. But in that brief moment, a long-dead service member, whose memory perhaps had long been extinguished and forgo...
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