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As a blanket of fog lifted Saturday at Fort Richardson National Cemetery, volunteers and the families of military service members fanned out to place holiday wreaths on the snow-capped graves of nearly 800 veterans.

The effort, part of a national program called Wreaths Across America, mirrored ceremonies around the country, with as many as 100,000 wreaths expected to be laid on grave sites at Arlington National Cemetery alone.

In Alaska, Christopher Brevard and his wife, Michele, showed up early. The couple skipped the speeches. They missed the bugler who played taps. The Brevards picked up a balsam fir wreath, punctuated with a red bow, and headed to their son’s memorial marker before the official ceremony was even set to begin.

Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Robert Brevard died in southern Iraq in 2007 while sweeping through a house rigged with explosives, his father said. The Dimond High School graduate left behind a wife an d two young daughters.

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