Paula Pedene

Volunteers from USAA, Bank of America, Mayo Clinic, Humana, AirGas, Scout Troop 531, Scout Pack 323, and many others joined in on Saturday morning, June 3, to assist the nonprofit Honoring America’s Veterans in gathering tens of thousands of flags from the internment sites at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona. After the flags were

Honoring America’s Veterans (HAV) is hosting the “Honor Our Heroes” Veterans Grand Marshal Competition again. Winners of the Competition will be honored as the veteran grand marshals at this year’s Phoenix Veterans Day Parade set for 11 a.m.,  Saturday, November 11, 2023. This year’s parade theme is “Never Forget. Forever Honor.” “The Parade is such

We sent emails, posted on social media, disseminated a news release, and prayed. We had a tough assignment facing us. It was the first year our nonprofit Honoring America’s Veterans had taken over the responsibility of gathering enough volunteers to place small American Flags at nearly 60,000 internment sites at the VA National Memorial Cemetery

There’s a great program in Arizona for high school students and veterans to get together to know each other. It’s called the Veterans Heritage Project, an after-school program where students meet and conduct interviews with veterans from every era to learn more about their service to our country. Thousands of high school students participate in

Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, the head of an organization of Union veterans — the Grand Army of the Republic — established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. Then, at the start of the 20th century, ceremonies

For several years, thousands of volunteers have placed small American Flags on the gravesides and columbaria at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona (NMCA). This year the nonprofit Honoring America’s Veterans will host the flag placement and retrieval ceremonies. In speaking with NMCA Randy Heard, HAV learned it would be