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 […]
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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
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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
Community Support of the Memorial Day events is inspiring. Read More »
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
Since You Asked, the community reception and book signing will take place on May 28 Read More »
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
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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
Honor a veteran with flag placement and retrieval at the VA Cemetery. Read More »
Native Americans serve in the United States Armed Forces at five times the national average. For a community that has persevered through decades of challenges, Native Americans – also called American Indians – have remained steadfast in their defense of the United States as members of the Armed Forces for centuries. So, it is
Efforts are underway to build an American Indian Veteran Memorial Read More »
Military spouses are often unsung heroes as they give up their careers to travel around the globe to support their military servicemembers. Now, military spouses can pursue a degree and receive financial support for their education thanks to the Spouse of Military Veteran Tuition Scholarship program at Arizona State University (ASU), Shantil Posniack is pursuing
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At the age of 18, Jack Holder enlisted in the U.S. Navy. After completing boot camp and Aviation Machinist Mate training, he was stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii as a Patrol Bomber Y squadron member. Although idyllic initially, his assignment turned to chaos when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Holder jumped
Remembering the life of World War II Pearl Harbor Veteran Jack Holder Read More »
Nearly 200,000 U.S. service members separate from the military each year, and for them, the fundamental change from military to civilian is not a distant challenge on the horizon. Instead, the reality begins when they remove their uniform and pursue their next career move. Thanks to the Veterans Imagination Project (VIP), housed under the ASU
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