This episode of Vermont Viewpoint was published 11/24/25.

Brad Ferland talks with Ginny Sweetzer with Wreaths Across America, a national 501(c)(3) whose mission is to have every veteran’s grave covered with a wreath, still has 2,718 wreaths that need to be sponsored in Vermont

Wreaths Across America, a national 501(c)(3) whose mission is to have every veteran’s grave covered with a wreath, still has 2,718 wreaths that need to be sponsored in Vermont.

This includes 239 at the Vermont Veterans' Home Cemetery in Bennington. 

On Dec. 13, at noon, Wreaths Across America will be at the Vermont Veterans'' Home Cemetery to Remember and Honor our veterans through the laying of Remembrance wreaths on the graves of our country's fallen heroes and the act of saying the name of each and every veteran aloud. Then, Sergeant First Class Niels Huisman has served with the 40th Army Band since 2004. His duties have included narrator and announcer for the concert band, leader and bass player for the Department of Jazz Septet, Drum Major for the marching band, and performer on bass and percussion with multiple other small ensembles. Finally, Thomas Ira Chittenden grew up in South Burlington, Vermont. Thomas has a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Vermont and his Vermont family lineage traces back nine generations to Bethuel Chittenden, the brother of Vermont's first governor Thomas Chittenden.