And we’re back for our 3rd and final day of #TheHonorProject 2021! I’ll be tweeting photos of the graves I visit in this thread today...please DM me if you have a loved one you would like visited in Arlington Cemetery and it would be my honor to visit them for you 🇺🇸#MemorialDay
This is my friend @AmberSmithUSA’s friend CW4 Michael Slebodnik. He was killed in Afghanistan flying a OH-58 Kiowa helicopter on September 11, 2008. From what I’ve read and heard he was an absolute badass and incredible mentor. Read about him here: google.com/amp/s/www.lega…
This is 1LT Daniel Weiss. He was a rifleman and a Ranger who deployed 3 times...requested by @DCAT320..please read his story here, it brought me to tears #TheHonorProject 🇺🇸 legacy.com/obituaries/nap…
This is the resting place of Maj Chris Cooper and his crew. A USAF pilot, Maj Cooper was killed in a B-52 crash in 2008. Requested by @rlbourquin, you can learn more about him here #TheHonorProject 🇺🇸 google.com/amp/s/www.lega…
This is Capt Mark Tyler Voss, TSgt Herman Mackey III, and Capt Victoria Pinckney. They were killed when their KC-135 crashed en route Afghanistan. Request via @chiproytx and Mark’s parents, you can learn more about them here..#TheHonorProject🇺🇸 google.com/amp/s/www.ksat…
This Dan Bartle, Nathan McHone, Travis Riddick, Joe Logan, Kevin Reinhard, and Jesse Stites. They were killed in a helo crash in Helmand Province in Jan. 2012. Requested by Dan’s brother @johnbartle, you can learn more about Dan here #TheHonorProject 🇺🇸 usnamemorialhall.org/index.php/DANI…
This is PVT Jonathan Falaniko from Pago Pago. He and his father were both serving in Iraq at the time he was KIA. Requested by @ArnoldofMD, you can read more about him here #TheHonorProject 🇺🇸 legacy.com/obituaries/nam…
This is SSG Christopher Hake. He was killed in Iraq in 2008, and apparently told his father they “couldn’t pay me to come home early.” Requested by @jcasper11, you can learn more about him here. #TheHonorProject 🇺🇸 legacy.com/obituaries/was…
Ok so my phone battery was dying so I focused on taking photos this last hour...recharging now so stay tuned for my last round of photos for #theHonorProject
This is Lance Cpl. Kevin Adam Lucas. He was from Greensboro and was KIA in Iraq when he took another Marine’s place on a last minute mission. You can read more about him here #TheHonorProjectgoogle.com/amp/s/www.lega…
This is Lt Col William Hall. According to his obituary, his two great loves were his family and the US Marine Corps. You can learn about him here #TheHonorProject 🇺🇸 fallenheroesproject.org/?p=3514
Last but certainly not least — this is LT Ronald Irwin. I met his lovely wife Wanda and we chatted about her husband, and how he joined the Navy in his 30s and was up for promotion. She also sent me his picture to share! #TheHonorProject
Thank you all for following along today (and special thanks to @mkhammer for the late afternoon reinforcements!). If I didn’t get to your request I apologize but one of our volunteers almost certainly did! I hope you can join us next year for #TheHonorProject 2022 🇺🇸
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And Day 2 is done! I’ll be visiting more graves and tweeting your requests tomorrow (please send them my way!), but I wanted tell you a little more about two Medal of Honor recipients I had the privilege of visiting today..
Sgt Clyde Thomason was from Atlanta, GA, and was a Marine Raider and the first enlisted Marine to receive the Medal of Honor during World War II...
At 6’4”, this handsome Devil dog needed a height waiver to be a Raider. He received his posthumous MOH for his bravery in the assault on the Makin Islands, including an occasion where he walked into the line of fire to kick in a door and take out a Japanese sniper..
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 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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...
Ok, so between all the pieces on our failed education system (depressing), an unfinished debate with a friend (annoying), and bc I told @MZHemingway I would, here’s the tweet thread with my recent thoughts on passing on what we believe to our kids...
..we often hear a viewpoint that Jefferson held on government. That each generation should reshape/reinterpret laws to fit a new lens, and that what we fight for today could just as likely be forgotten tomorrow as our kids make their own choices about what matters most to them..
...and more importantly, that there’s nothing to be sad about if the next generation chooses a different path. After all, who are we to tell the future citizens what country they should want?
Does anyone have buddies buried in Arlington who they would like visited today? Since only family members are allowed in, I would be honored to pay respects on your behalf...
@MeganMuratTV I am so sorry for your loss, but feel so privileged to have visited your husband. He and you deserve the highest honor and I will keep you in my prayers 🙏🏻 ♥️🇺🇸