Wreaths Across America gets escort from Springfield to Arlington National Cemetery

A parking lot in Springfield played a major role this year in Wreaths Across America’s annual tribute to fallen military service members at Arlington National Cemetery.

The Interstate Van Lines building at 5801 Rolling Road in Springfield served as a major staging area for dozens of tractor-trailer trucks that transported wreaths to the cemetery, where Wreaths Across America laid tributes at every single gravesite last Saturday (Dec. 14).

The tractor trailers arrived at the Interstate Van Lines parking lot last week after traveling down the East Coast from Columbia, Maine.

For the final leg of the annual Escort to Arlington organized by Wreaths Across America, the trucks were escorted by police motorcycles from the parking lot to Arlington last Friday, Dec. 13.