National Memorial Day Dedication of Wiccan Veteran Gravestones

May 26, 2007

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Wiccans and those of other faiths from Wisconsin, Ohio, Nevada, Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, and elsewhere are traveling to Barneveld, Wisconsin to take part in the nation's first Memorial Day Dedication of Wiccan veteran gravestones.

Three granite markers with Pentacles will be dedicated on Monday, May 28 at Circle Cemetery, Wisconsin's first conservation cemetery, located at Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve, near the village of Barneveld, about 25 miles west of Madison, Wisconsin.

Rev. Selena Fox, Senior Minister of Circle Sanctuary, will facilitate the midday national interfaith service which includes a color guard comprised of Wiccan veterans, music, prayers, meditation, and the placing of fresh flowers around each gravestone. Widows of the three veterans will assist in the consecration of the markers: