A good Friday read from the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Morrill Worcester was 12 in 1962 when he first saw Arlington National Cemetery. He was awed by the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns, the sheer size of the 200-acre cemetery. “That stayed with me,” Worcester says. Thirty years later, Worcester, then president of a wreath wholesaler in Harrington, Maine, ended the season with 5,000 extra wreaths. “They were nice fresh wreaths, and I didn’t want to throw them away,” Worcester says. He remembered Arlington, and decided to give thanks for a good life by thanking those who make that life possible. “We’ve been really blessed here,” he says of the business he began as a college sophomore in 1971. That year, Worcester Wreath Co. sold 500 wreaths. This year, he’ll move about 600,000, many through L.L. Bean. “I really think it’s because of the freedoms we have. . . . And a lot of those freedoms have been given to us by the military.”
If you’re still planning on buying a wreath, give these guys your business.
