During the holiday season, people often search for ways to make things a little more special for friends and family. However, there are some people who want to share the holiday spirit with strangers, too. Across the country, volunteers have decorated thousands of veterans' graves with holiday wreaths for National Wreaths Across America Day.
The annual wreath-laying ceremony has been around for many years. Veterans' charities and military organizations across the country purchase truckloads of wreaths and organize volunteers in every state to help lay them. This year's national event began on Dec. 12.
The volunteers arrived at a local veterans' cemetery and began placing holiday wreaths on each grave. Brian Blevin, one of the volunteers in Sacramento, told Fox 40 News that the event was something special to witness.
"It changes you, it makes you want to come back and do it more," Blevin said in his interview.
Blevin and the other volunteers across the country look at the event as an opportunity to honor those who served and to take part in the holiday spirit.
WDBJ 7 News reported that over 700,000 wreaths were laid in the 2014 ceremony.