BLISSFIELD — The Wreaths Across America mobile exhibit will return to Blissfield in July. The exhibit will be at Springbrook Commons, 628 W. Adrian St., from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 20.

“The mission of Wreaths Across America is to remember the fallen, fonor those who have served and their families, and teach the next generation the value of freedom,” Karen Worcester, executive director of Wreaths Across America, said in a news release. “The Mobile Education Exhibit provides the unique opportunity for communities to come together and share the stories of those who served and sacrificed. Through our partnership with the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration, the exhibit also serves as an official ‘Welcome Home’ location for our nation’s Vietnam veterans.”

The Mobile Education Exhibit brings local communities, veterans, active-duty military and their families together through interactive exhibits, short films and shared stories. The exhibit serves as a mobile museum.

Anyone interested in supporting the local program can sponsor a veteran’s wreath for $17 at wreathsacrossamerica.org/MI0181. Each sponsorship goes toward a live, balsam wreath that will be placed on the headstone of an American veteran on Dec. 13 as part of National Wreaths Across America Day.

This summer will mark the seventh year that Blissfield has participated in Wreaths Across America. It started with a local Navy enlistee who volunteered at an event in Virginia. He told his father about the experience, and his father started a location in Blissfield. There are about 570 veterans buried at Blissfield’s three cemeteries, and this group fundraises to be able to place a wreath on each veteran’s grave on Wreaths Across America Day. Usually, about 100 volunteers come out on this day and help lay the wreaths. Groups like the American Legion, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and many schoolchildren participate.

For more information about the organization, go to wreathsacrossamerica.org.