Wreaths Across America
Tech. Sgt. Bryan Dochnahl, 81st Force Support Squadron, represented the Air Force at a Wreaths Across America ceremony Saturday at Biloxi National Ceremony sponsored by the Keesler Civil Air Patrol. Among Keesler’s other representatives
were Brig. Gen. Ian Dickinson, 81st Training Wing commander, and Col. Christopher Valle, vice commander, and his wife, Mary. This is the fourth year of the national campaign that brings remembrance wreaths to more than 230 national and state veterans’ cemeteries and memorials across the nation. The Keesler Civil Air Patrol received an extra 50 wreaths this year and placed them at all section entrances of the cemetery and at the most recent graves of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ceremonical evergreen wreaths honoring the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, Merchant Marines and all prisoners of war and soldiers missing in action were also placed. A ceremony was also held at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Ocean Springs, with a color guard from Keesler’s Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Chuck Marsh)