Viking volunteers honor war dead with Christmas wreaths
Every military service member deserves to be remembered in death, especially during the holiday season. That was the sentiment expressed by leaders of Viking Love NYC, a Bay Ridge charity organization whose members spent a recent Saturday placing Christmas wreaths on the graves of service members and veterans at a Brooklyn cemetery.
Viking Love NYC members traveled to Cypress Hills Cemetery and spent the day on Dec. 13 putting wreaths on 1,000 gravestones. Thirty Viking Love members volunteered to take in the wreath-laying tribute to Brooklyn’s military members. The effort was organized by Viking Love member Danny Corbett.
Jason McDermott, a founder of Viking Love NYC, said the visit to Cypress Hills was part of National Wreaths Across America Day, an annual effort organized the group Wreaths Across America to pay tribute to soldiers.