The 2024 Wreaths Across America ceremony at Sunrise Cemetery in Pickens was held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, December 14. 

“This is a national program that starts at Arlington and impacts cemeteries across the nation,” Pickens Police Chief Randal Beach, who organized the ceremony for the city-owned cemetery, told The Pickens County Chronicle. ‘I’m a veteran. A lot of officers here are veterans. There is that camaraderie importance, but there is a biblical importance, for the families and everyone in the community, that we honor our deceased veterans.” 

Below, listen to The Pickens County Chronicle‘s audio from the entire ceremony and view 50 photographs by The Pickens County Chronicle.