Wednesday, November 22, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Camp Polk Cemetery to
honor service members
Camp Polk Cemetery will
host a wreath-laying cer-
emony, joining more than
1,200 other locations across
the country for National
Wreaths Across America Day.
This annual event seeks to
further the WAA mission of
“Remember, Honor, Teach,”
ensuring that the memory of
those who served our country
endures.
This year’s WAA event
will be held on Saturday,
December 16, at 9 a.m.
at Camp Polk Cemetery.
Parking is extremely limited
and attendees are encouraged
to carpool.
The local ceremony, coor-
dinated and led by volun-
teers, has raised over $300
to place 22 wreaths on the
headstones of fallen service
members and is still look-
ing for an additional $200
to cover the final 15 head-
stones. Wreaths are $15 each
and can be purchased at
WreathsAcrossAmerica.org.
To ensure your donation is
purchasing a wreath at Camp
Polk Cemetery please search
for Camp Polk Cemetery on
the official website prior to
donating.
Since 1992, WAA founder
Morrill Worcester has always
asked volunteers placing
remembrance wreaths to take
time to read the name on the
headstone aloud.
“Without the thousands
of local volunteers across
the country who give their
time and energy to support
the mission, Wreaths Across
America would not exist,”
said Karen Worcester. “All
our supporters understand
the value of remembering the
fallen, honoring those who
currently serve, and the need
to teach the next generation
about the sacrifices made for
our freedom.”
The goal for Camp Polk
Cemetery is to raise enough
funds to place 39 remem-
brance wreaths on the head-
stones and say the names of
all the local heroes laid to rest
there, to ensure that the indi-
viduals who served to protect
the freedoms of our country
are not, and never will be,
forgotten.
Those interested in vol-
unteering for Wreaths Across
America, either locally or at
Arlington National Cemetery
may visit the WAA website at
www.wreathsacrossamerica.
org to learn more. National
Wreaths Across America Day
is a free event open to all.
BUNKHOUSE: Respect
for a man who works
for everything he has
around our place, but while
I appreciate the concern, the
final disposition of my soul is
a matter held strictly between
the Almighty and me.
So we get these gifts. In
Armando’s case it is the gift
of needed help, but he also
serves as an important reflec-
tion, an image we might look
at and be prompted to think
about what we are becoming,
this nation of immigrants. We
might, by looking at how hard
Armando works — without
the slightest hint of bitter-
ness — learn to better judge
ourselves, and our notions of
what we think life owes us.
The fact of the matter is
I’d take one Armando, what-
ever his legal status in this
country — a man of obvi-
ous substance and character
and humility, of good cheer
despite his circumstances —
over ten of the kind of smug,
lazy, weak-minded, foul-
mouthed, and utterly insistent
and entitled Americans who
are sucking the life out of our
republic. It’s no accident that,
no matter how badly they
might need a fistful of dol-
lars, those folks never come
knocking on my door in the
sincere and refreshingly hon-
est attempt to earn it.
It has simply never hap-
pened. Not even once.
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because they had found
steady work somewhere. The
alternative was a long slide
into that sleaziest world of
street-level meth, crack, and
heroin dealing.
But here was Armando,
pulling into our driveway
with only his rake and a ratty
tarp, without the slightest
idea what kind of reception
he might receive. The dogs
liked him instantly, which
is something I pay attention
to because they have proven
to be excellent judges of
character.
Armando made his pro-
posal and he went to work
raking pine needles out of the
bunch grass. His reception
here was far better, I promise
you, than the one I reserve
for the well-heeled prosely-
tizers who come banging on
our door — even after I tell
them not to do it anymore —
looking to save my soul from
what must look to them like
a rock-solid case of eternal
damnation. But I have a prac-
tical approach to all of that:
I’ll take help with the chores
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