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Amaiya Howard | WDBJ 7

Saturday, people across our hometowns remembered the fallen and honored those who served, through National Wreaths Across America Day.

The community rallied together at a ceremony in Salem to begin placing wreaths for fallen heroes. A cool breeze filled East Hill Cemetery as locals gathered to honor their memory.

Volunteers Cheryl Ponce and Chyrel Gregorieff have a long military family history.

“It kind of keeps everybody from my family that’s still living with me and has passed in my heart, when I lay a wreath on veterans’ cemetery graves,” said Ponce.

Ponce’s husband, father, and grandfather are military veterans, and her son actively serves at Fort Rucker.

The National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, invited them to lay wreaths at the East Hill cemeteries.

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