From left: Ray Smith ’18, Rebecca Scease Reid ’96, Katharine Smith, Brian Tsu ’00, Lissa Herrick Tsu ’00, Josie Campese ’02, Bill McDonald ’68, and Mary-Lou Kiley MSW’77.

San Diego Eagles participated for the first time as a group in the annual Wreaths across America event earlier this month. They joined several hundred participants on December 14 at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery on Point Loma to lay wreaths on hundreds of graves of veterans and members of their families.

Mary-Lou Kiley MSW’77 lays a wreath on a veteran’s grave.

Wreaths across America sponsors and organizes events such as this at national cemeteries throughout the US. The Boston College Veterans Alumni Network has sponsored  the event for several years at the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne, Mass., on Cape Cod. Alumni chapters have also begun to participate at Arlington National Cemetery.

Opening ceremony at Fort Rosecrans

The next national event will take place on December 19, 2020.