Army, Indy community honor veterans with wreath laying tradition
Levi T. W. Orders-Woempner, son of Mark R. W. Orders-Woempner, U.S. Army Financial Management Command public affairs officer, places a wreath on the grave of C. Nick Maddix, a U.S. Army Vietnam War veteran who passed in 2013, during a Wreaths Across America event at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis Dec. 13, 2025. This year, more than two million volunteers and supporters gathered to remember, honor and teach by laying wreaths on the graves of veterans at more than 5,200 participating locations in all 50 states, at sea and abroad. (U.S. Army photo by Mark R. W. Orders-Woempner)