Thread by @ehdomenech

Day 1 of #TheHonorProject was cold, rainy, and incredible. I’m so grateful to the volunteers who came out today...please follow the hashtag as we share the names of the fallen this weekend 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

https://twitter.com/tmfoundation/status/1398716064867966981

I’ll be visiting and sharing the photos of the graves y’all send requests for here on Monday, but in the meantime I’d like to share a little more background on an Airman whose grave has become one I visit every time I’m in Arlington Cemetery..

This is Air Force Capt. Ryan Phaneuf’s grave and it’s the first place I visited for #TheHonorProject. Last year, his wife @MeganMuratTV asked me to visit his grave, not knowing whether or not he would even have a headstone yet...

He was in the 37th Bomb Squadron based at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota, and was killed along with Lt. Col. Paul Voss when their E-11A crashed in Ghazni province in Afghanistan in January 2020. He was buried at Arlington immediately prior to pandemic restrictions..

Last year, I was one of the first to visit his headstone, an honor I will never forget. Since then, I’ve read his obituary a dozen times. You can read it here, and I hope that you do... dumontsullivan.com/m/obituaries/C…

I never had the chance to meet him, but I learned Ryan wanted to fly early, participating in junior AFROTC in high school and becoming one of the top cadets in the country. I learned he also flew B-1s, and had the callsign “Phantom” and then later “FOGG”...

Capt. Phaneuf served as a flight instructor, had over 1300 flying hours, and then volunteered to fly the E-11A in Afghanistan. He was by all accounts an exemplary pilot, airman, and American. Take the time to say his name and learn his story 🇺🇸 #TheHonorProject