26-05-2025
Families honor military veterans on Memorial Day at cemetery
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Several events are happening across the country on this Memorial Day as families honor the men and women who have died while serving in the military.
At the West Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery, families gathered to honor fallen military service members and the sacrifices they made.
'It's the ultimate sacrifice, you know. And being a veteran myself and my wife, it's a lot,' said Brandon Kretchman, a military veteran.
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The Travis Manion Foundation, one of the nation's leading veteran service organizations, hosted The Honor Project, where over 2500 TMF volunteers at 60 cemeteries across the country gathered to place flags on each gravesite.
'People that have loved ones here that that aren't able to make it, they're able to send in their names, and we'll go be intentional and go visit their gravesite, place a token in and say their name and keep their memory alive,' said Neil Sheridan, TMF Volunteer Leader.
The Honor Project initiative demonstrates to surviving families and battle buddies that their loved ones will not be forgotten.
'The deployments, the nuisances of families being separated, and going out and sacrificing for our freedoms. Again, it's the least we can do to be able to come out and just pay honor to everyone that came before us,' said Kretchman.
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