SEQUIM — Wreaths Across America, a national program that echoes the honoring of veterans at Arlington National Cemetery by placing balsam wreaths on the graves of service members, will be held for the first time in Sequim on Saturday.
Sequim’s Michael Trebert Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is organizing the Sequim event, set for 9 a.m. Saturday at Sequim View Cemetery, located at 1505 Sequim-Dungeness Way.
Jan Urfer, secretary with the Michael Trebert Chapter of the Daughter of the American Revolution, works with scouts Hunter Halverson and Cayden Beauregard from Sequim Troop 90 to clean headstones and grave markers at Sequim View Cemetery on Nov 28, 2020. Members of the chapter and scout troop were busy preparing the cemetery for a Wreaths Across America event slated for Saturday. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
DAR and other volunteers will lay wreaths for the 577 service members buried at the cemetery as well as selected sites across Sequim.
Watch the Saturday ceremony via livestream at 9 a.m. on the Northwest Veterans Resource Center’s Facebook page, facebook.com/nwvrc.
The Sequim event is one of more than 2,500 Wreaths Across America activities scheduled in 2020.
A flyover by four U.S. Navy EA-18G “Growler” jets is scheduled for 9:02 a.m. The aircraft from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island are to fly across Sequim at 1,000 feet, from west to east, at 300 knots — about 345 mph — and the sound will be heard across the Dungeness Valley.
The jets perform a wide range of enemy defense suppression missions with the latest electronic attack technology, jamming pods and satellite communications, and are often heard in Port Townsend and east Jefferson County while training at Outlying Field Coupeville on Whidbey Island.
Nicole Clark of Sequim Sunrise Rotary (background) joins Melody Albertson, national defense chair of DAR Michael Trebert Chapter, help clean a headstone at Sequim View Cemetery on Nov. 28, 2020. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
