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Yahoo
26-05-2025
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- Yahoo
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. Man set on fire inside car crashes into front yard: MPD 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. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
25-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Volunteers honor veterans with families at National Cemetery of the Alleghenies
Members of the Travis Manion Foundation, named after a Marine killed in action in 2007, visited graves at the National Cemetery of the Alleghenies. They hosted The Honor Project on Saturday at 9 a.m. Volunteers visit cemeteries and place coins on the graves of military members who gave the ultimate sacrifice. They also honor them with a moment of silence. 'It was a movement that was brought on by a woman who said that someone had contacted her and said, 'I can't go out to memorialize my loved one and I would love it if you could do this for me,' and, so, she started this movement,' said Travis Manion Foundation Manager Jessica Gardner. The project gives families the chance to honor the fallen and come together to grieve their own. 'It's those they left behind. It's not just about those that we lost. They're still grieving and going through things and we want to find a place where they can come together in a community and be together and go through that with one another,' said Gardner. More than 25,000 volunteers will visit 60 cemeteries across the country as part of the foundation's work. Download the FREE WPXI News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Channel 11 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch WPXI NOW
Associated Press
23-05-2025
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- Associated Press
Travis Manion Foundation Set to Honor 10,000 Military Heroes on Memorial Day Weekend Through the Honor Project
Volunteers Expand Their Service to 60 National Cemeteries DOYLESTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA / ACCESS Newswire / May 23, 2025 / Honoring the sacrifices of America's fallen military heroes, Travis Manion Foundation (TMF) - one of the leading veteran service organizations in the country - is expanding its annual The Honor Project (THP) initiative to sixty cemeteries nationwide this year. Throughout Memorial Day Weekend, volunteers are set to visit thousands of our nation's fallen heroes, standing in for families and friends unable to visit their loved ones. Since its inception in 2021, The Honor Project has encouraged families of fallen service members and battle buddies to request a personal visit to their fallen hero. Throughout Memorial Day weekend, TMF volunteers across the country will personally visit and place American-made commemorative tokens at each hero's interment location to pay their respects - pausing to reflect on the sacrifices of those service members and preserve their legacies. During its inaugural year, TMF mobilized volunteers to visit 4,000 fallen heroes at Arlington National Cemetery. Now in its fifth year, The Honor Project has partnered with the National Cemetery Association to expand its reach to honor 10,000 fallen heroes, mobilizing volunteers in sixty locations across nearly thirty states including: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington state and Wisconsin. 'Each year during Memorial Day weekend, I am continually in awe of how our nation takes time to pause and reflect on the sacrifices of our fallen service members,' said Ryan Manion, CEO of Travis Manion Foundation. 'Five years ago, I could not have imagined that The Honor Project would have reached sixty cemeteries across the country. The exponential growth of this initiative is a testament to the strength and impact of the community we have built at TMF. It's our duty and obligation to honor the sacrifices of our nation's fallen heroes. These men and women gave their lives for a higher calling: to preserve America's freedom and to serve a purpose greater than themselves. As a nation, it's our responsibility to preserve their legacies, learn their stories, and say their names at America's most hallowed grounds.' Learn more about The Honor Project here. About Travis Manion Foundation: Travis Manion Foundation (TMF) unites communities to strengthen America's national character by empowering veterans and families of fallen heroes to develop and lead future generations. In 2007, 1stLt Travis Manion (USMC) was killed in Iraq while saving his wounded teammates. Today, Travis' legacy lives on in the words he spoke before leaving for his final deployment, 'If Not Me, Then Who...' Guided by this mantra, veterans continue their service, develop strong relationships with their communities, and thrive in their post-military lives by serving as character role models to youth. As a result, communities prosper and the character of our nation's heroes lives on in the next generation. For more information, please visit # # # Media Contact: Ed Donovan -- Senior Director, Marketing & Communications at Travis Manion Foundation [email protected] (m) 610-220-1441 Contact InformationElizabeth Aucamp Director of Business Development (704) 249-1430 SOURCE: Travis Manion Foundation press release
