TXTA Announces Partnership with wreaths across america to form virtual convoy to raise awareness and support for the mission
FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION—April 26, 2023
TXTA Contact: Kimberly Leggett
kimberly@texastrucking.com
AUSTIN, TX and COLUMBIA FALLS, ME—Texas Trucking Associations (TXTA) is proud to announce its participation in a statewide Virtual Convoy in partnership with national nonprofit Wreaths Across America (WAA).
The Virtual Convoy kicks off this month across the country. The goal is simple, help raise awareness for WAA’s year-round mission to Remember the fallen, Honor those that serve, and Teach the next generation the value of freedom, while helping each raise funds to support for local programs important to the people of Texas. Through WAA’s Group Sponsorship Program, TXTA is registered as a $5 pay back Sponsorship Group supporting Arlington National Cemetery – where more than 400,000 servicemembers, representing every U.S. conflict and the state of Texas, are laid to rest.
Through this effort, TXTA will be working to fill (virtually) one trailer load of sponsored veterans’ wreaths to send to Arlington National Cemetery this December. This is approximately 5,000 wreaths which will be laid on the final resting place of servicemembers from our state. With each $17 veteran’s wreath sponsored and American hero receives a wreath, and the year-round mission of WAA is supported, AND the Association will receive $5 back! These funds will be used to promote the growth of this program’s footprint in Texas. Today thousands of veterans graves still go without wreaths, and the thought that they rest without someone uttering the name of these fallen men and women over the holiday season is simply something we know we can improve upon.
“To say TXTA is proud to partner with WAA on the Virtual Convoy is an understatement—we are beyond proud. This initiative is a token of gratitude to the men and women who have sacrificed so much for our freedom and country. We encourage our membership and really, the whole country, to honor our countries fallen heroes with a wreath—a simple, yet meaningful, expression of thanks.”
“Each year, WAA partners with more than 300 transportation companies who help us “move the mission.” These companies donate equipment, fuel, staffing, and time to deliver loads of sponsored veterans’ wreaths to their final resting places on the headstones of our nation’s servicemembers laid to rest at more than 3,700 participating cemeteries nationwide,” said Courtney George, Manager of Transportation and Industry Relations, WAA. “The Virtual Convoy which will help expand this reach within the industry through the partnership and support of State Trucking Associations across the country.”
To support TXTA reach its goal, please consider sponsoring a wreath at https://wreathsacrossamerica.org/pages/175411.
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About Texas Trucking Association
Texas Trucking Association is a trade organization dedicated to enhancing the effectiveness of its members by advocating sound public policies, providing excellence in education, training, and information, and promoting a safe, dependable, and cost-effective motor transportation system to better serve the people of Texas. To learn more, visit www.texastrucking.com.
About Wreaths Across America
Wreaths Across America is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded to continue and expand the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery begun in 1992. The organization’s mission – Remember, Honor, Teach – is carried out in part each year by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in December at Arlington, as well as thousands of veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond.
For more information or to sponsor a wreath please visit www.wreathsacrossamerica.org.
Press contacts:
Kimberly Leggett
Texas Trucking Association
kimberly@texastrucking.com
512-982-7474
Sean Sullivan
Wreaths Across America
ssullivan@wreathsacrossamerica.org
(207) 230-4599
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