STEVENS TRANSPORT TAKES PART IN WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA:

The year was 1992. Worcester Wreath Company of Harrington, Maine found themselves with a surplus of wreaths nearing the end of the holiday season. Remembering a fond boyhood experience at Arlington National Cemetery, Morrill Worcester, owner of Worcester Wreath Company, realized he had an opportunity to honor our country’s veterans. With the aid of Maine Senator Olympia Snowe, and a handful of volunteers, arrangements were made for the wreaths to be placed at Arlington National Cemetery in one of the older sections of the cemetery that had been receiving fewer visitors with each passing year.

This annual tribute went on quietly for several years, until 2005, when a photo of the stones at Arlington, adorned with wreaths and covered in snow, circulated around the internet. Suddenly, the project received national attention and received volunteer interest from hundreds of thousands of people from all over the country. In 2007, the Worcester family, along with veterans, and other individuals formed Wreaths Across America, a non-profit organization, to continue and expand this effort, and support other groups around the country who wanted to honor our veterans. The mission of the group is simple:

REMEMBER. HONOR. TEACH.

This year, Stevens Transport was proud to take part in this incredible program for the seventh time.

On December 16th, Stevens Transport drivers Paul Gouker and Mark McCready joined the near 80,000 volunteers at Arlington National Cemetery in placing wreaths on the graves of an estimated 400,000 service members. Mark, a United States Air Force veteran, hauled the wreaths from Harrington, Maine to Washington D.C., where he met Paul, a United States Army Veteran and Transition Trucking Award finalist, and the two proudly represented Stevens Transport,in this incredible program to honor our veterans.

For more than 43 years, Stevens Transport has been supporting our men and women in uniform and we are proud to offer service members an opportunity to become part of the Stevens Family. We look forward to participating in the Wreaths Across America program for many years to come, as well as continuing to always honor the men and women that so bravely served our country.