“VETERANS KNOW BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE THE PRICE OF FREEDOM, FOR THEY’VE SUFFERED THE SCARS OF WAR. WE CAN OFFER THEM NO BETTER TRIBUTE THAN TO PROTECT WHAT THEY HAVE WON FOR US.”
– President Ronald Reagan
Whether answering the nations call to defend the liberties and freedoms endowed by God and our forefathers and enshrined in the texts of the oldest written national constitution in force in the world, or volunteering to train and stand at-the-ready if so called upon, it is our duty as family, friends, and countrymen to honor those individuals who served where and when we can.
As part of our core mission, we endeavor to identify veterans of America’s wars and conflicts who called Maryland home, by birth or as their adopted state, who do not have a headstone at their gravesite or cenotaph set in remembrance in a known family lot or hometown cemetery.
Beginning in 2019 with the discovery of a long-deteriorated government issued headstone for a Civil War era Union veteran issued in 1879, we have endeavored to identify and procure headstones or memorial markers for veterans of all of America’s wars and conflicts. We accomplish this through diligent and thorough research working internally and with outside organizations such as the Maryland Department of the Society of the War of 1812 in Maryland, various Maryland chapters of the Daughters of the Revolution, the Maryland Society of the Daughters of 1812, and others.