One of the D.C. area’s most hallowed holiday traditions is coming up this weekend, and they need volunteers to help make it happen. Hundreds of thousands of wreaths will be laid at Arlington National Cemetery for the annual Wreaths Across America.
“It’s just wonderful for the public to come in and pay honor and respect to those who served,” said Karen Durham-Aguilera, the executive director of the Office of Army Cemeteries.
Gates open at 8 a.m. Saturday, and there are four ways to enter: the main entrance on Memorial Avenue, the Ord and Weitzel pedestrian gate across from the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, or a gate off Columbia Pike. Department of Defense passholders can enter through Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall…