Wreaths Across America is most recognized for placing more than 2.7 million veterans wreaths at more than 3,700 locations nationally and abroad on National Wreaths Across America Day. However, the work to recognize our nation’s veterans, military families and active duty service members is a yearlong effort.

WAA is proud to announce, as part of its yearlong mission to remember the fallen, honor those who serve and their families and teach the next generation the value of freedom, its mobile education exhibit will make a stop in Whitehall July 17 to share this mission with the community.

The free exhibit will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Mission BBQ, 1421 Grape St., Whitehall.

“The mobile education exhibit provides the unique opportunity for communities to come together and share the stories of those who served and sacrificed,” the exhibit Executive Director Karen Worcester said. “Through our partnership with the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration, the exhibit also serves as an official ‘welcome home’ location for our nation’s Vietnam veterans.”

The exhibit achieves this goal by bringing the local community, veterans, active-duty military and their families together through interactive exhibits, short films and shared stories. The exhibit serves as a mobile museum, educating visitors about the service and sacrifice of our nation’s heroes.

When the exhibit pulls into the area, all veterans, active-duty military, their families and local community members are invited and encouraged to visit, take a tour and speak with WAA representatives and volunteers. They can also share more about the national nonprofit and the work its volunteers do to support our heroes and their communities year-round.

Members of the community are urged to come, ask questions, share stories and experience this one-of-a-kind exhibit.

You can sponsor a veterans wreath anytime to support the local WAA program at Cedar Hill Memorial Park, Allentown, for $17 at wreathacrossamerica.org/PA0004.

Each sponsorship goes toward a live, balsam wreath that will be placed Dec. 16 on the headstone of an American hero in an effort to honor all veterans laid to rest.

WAA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded to continue and expand the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery begun by Maine businessman Morrill Worcester in 1992.