Wreaths Across America Beaufort Coordinator David Edwards
speaks during Wreaths Across America Day on Saturday, Dec.
16, 2023 at Beaufort National Cemetery. During Saturday’s
ceremony, the Thomas Heyward, Jr. Chapter of the National
Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)
awarded Edwards the DAR Medal of Honor. The award, the most
prestigious honor awarded by the DAR, is given to an adult man
or woman who is a United States citizen by birth and has shown
extraordinary qualities of leadership, trustworthiness, service, and
patriotism. The recipient must have made unusual and lasting
contributions to our American Heritage by truly giving of himself
or herself to his or her community, state, country, and fellow man.
The honor has been bestowed on fewer than 2,000 individuals
since its creation in 1972. Lance Cpl. Kyle Baskin/USMC
