“Wreaths Across America comes to Mare Island”
The Vallejo Times Herald - Published December 17, 2022
By Thomas Gage:
Veterans honored by dozens at annual event set up by Steve Nash.
Tombstones often say, “Gone but not forgotten.”
Steve Nash made sure that message came through loud and clear Saturday morning at Mare Island Naval Cemetery.
Nash — the President of the Vallejo Navy League — is once again a big part of Wreaths Across America. For the fourth straight year, he made sure every grave and tombstone in the cemetery had a wreath on it for the holiday season.
“It’s really special for me because some of the veterans here haven’t been recognized for many, many years,” Nash said. “When I put the wreath down I take a step back and mention their name out loud and then I wonder what the good person did in that time they were serving. What would have it been like to serve during that time?”
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FSC Clifton Sweet and his wife Connie, from Sacramento, help place wreaths on headstones at the Mare Island cemetery during the Wreaths Across American event in Vallejo on Saturday. (Chris Riley/Times-Herald)