Mission BBQ Partners With Wreaths Across America To Support Vets

GLEN BURNIE, MD — Locally based Mission BBQ and Wreaths Across American will kick off the American Heroes Cup campaign Nov. 12 to help raise funds to sponsor veterans' wreaths to be placed on headstones on National Wreaths Across America Day in December 2021.

Through the end of 2020, for every American Heroes Cup purchased at any of the restaurant's 99 locations, $2 will be donated to Wreaths Across America. In 2019, Mission BBQ raised $350,420 for WAA through its American Heroes Cup campaign, sponsoring the placement of more than 23,000 veterans' wreaths in memory of our nation's veterans – these wreaths will be placed by volunteers at more than 80 participating cemeteries this year on National Wreaths Across America Day Dec. 19.

To kick off this year's partnership, the WAA Mobile Education Exhibit will be participating in a month-long tour of Mission BBQ restaurant locations in Maryland and Virginia, offering free tours for the public interested in learning more about the mission to "Remember, Honor and Teach."

The Mobile Education Exhibit started its national tour months ago at the Wreaths Across America headquarters in Maine. The exhibit showcases the national nonprofit, the work being done to honor veterans and provides a firsthand account of what it is like to deliver more than two million sponsored veterans' wreaths this year.

"We owe everything to our nation's veterans, who have risked all that a person can to defend and protect this country," said Bill Kraus, co-founder of Mission BBQ. "It's an honor to provide support to Wreaths Across America in remembering the fallen and thanking military families for their sacrifices."