Please join the Nordonia Band Aides in honoring our nation’s heroes by sponsoring a wreath to be laid at the burial site of a US veteran through Wreaths Across America and their “National Wreaths Across America Day.” Your sponsorship of a wreath will not only honor a great American but will help the Nordonia Band Aides pay for equipment and supplies needed for the Nordonia High School Marching band. Each wreath costs $15 to sponsor and for every wreath sponsored $5 will be returned to the Nordonia Band Aides to support the “Pride of Nordonia.”
On December 17, 2022 Wreaths Across America will hold their “Wreaths Across America Day” where a wreath will be laid at each burial site of America’s heroes throughout the US. This year the Nordonia Band Aides are sponsoring wreaths to be laid at the Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery located at 10175 Rawiga Road, Seville, OH 44273.
You can sponsor and/or volunteer to lay a wreath through the Nordonia Band Aides by clicking the following link;
The deadline to sponsor a wreath is November 28,2022.
About Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery:
Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery is the second national cemetery built in Ohio and the 119th in the national cemetery system.
Currently, there are more than one million veterans living in the State of Ohio and approximately 540,000 residing in the cemetery’s service area. The first two phases of construction, covering 65 acres of 273-acre cemetery, included 21,000 gravesites, 10,100 columbaria niches and 3,800 in-ground garden niches for cremated remains. At full capacity, Ohio Western Reserve can provide burial space for 106,000 eligible veterans and dependents, beyond the year 2050.
Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery lies approximately 45 miles south of Cleveland in Medina County near the town of Seville. The cemetery’s name refers to the part of the Northwest Territory formerly known as the Connecticut Western Reserve, a tract of land in Northeast Ohio reserved by the State of Connecticut when it ceded its claims for western lands to the U.S. government in 1786.
Monuments and Memorials
Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery features a pathway that is lined with memorials that honor America’s veterans, which have been donated by various organizations. As of 2017, there were 139 memorials, most commemorating events and troops of the 20th century.
