Bethel Shields, a Gold Star mother, carries a wreath Monday through Veterans Memorial Park in Lewiston during a Wreaths Across America ceremony. A support convoy stopped at Lewiston on its trip from the Worcester Wreath Co. in Harrington to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Joyce Richmond of Lewiston, another Gold Star mother, is traveling to Virginia with the convoy. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

Pastor George Sheats of St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Auburn reads a blessing on Monday before a wreath-laying ceremony at Veterans Memorial Park in Lewiston. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

Charlie Paul of Norway, a former command sergeant major in the Army Reserves, hands out wreaths to participants Monday at a wreath-laying ceremony at Veterans Memorial Park in Lewiston. The wreaths were made by the Worcester Wreath Co. of Harrington for the Wreaths Across America project, which aims to place wreaths at veterans gravesites and to “remember, honor and teach.” Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

Chloe Lacasse, center, and Zoe Lacasse look at a new park bench Monday as their little sister Ella runs behind them at Veterans Memorial Park in Lewiston. The siblings sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” at a wreath-laying ceremony as part of the Wreaths Across America project. The bench memorializes Jirard DerBoghosian, who was a friend of the Lacasse family. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

A Walmart truck containing wreaths destined for Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, pulls up Monday to Veterans Memorial Park in Lewiston. Three tractor-trailer trucks filled with wreaths will accompany a smaller truck from the Worcester Wreath Co. in Harrington. After making several stops along the way, the convoy will meet up in Arlington, Virginia, with the official Wreaths Across America convoy to lay wreaths at the national cemetery. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal