Where did you serve and what did you do?
VIETNAM, HELICOPTER GUNNER.
MACHINE GUNNER.
PILOT.
How are you #StillServing?
RESTORATION OF LOST FORGOTTEN VETERANS GRAVE SITES.
I RESEARCH LOCATE AND RESTORE VETERANS GRAVE MARKERS AND HEAD STONES. GRAVE MARKERS ARE SUNKEN BELOW GROUND AND NEED TO BE UNCOVERED AND BROUGHT TO SURFACE. IT IS A DAUNTING TASK! LOCATING THEM IS AN OBSTICLE IN ITSELF. MY GRAND CHILDREN KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN CEMETERIES THEY CANVAS. LOW SUNKEN DEPRESSIONS USUALLY IN LINE . THEY PLACE MARKER FLAGS.
I PLACE GRAVE FLAGS EACH MEMORIAL DAY ON THE SITES WITH MY GRAND CHILDREN AND VOLUNTEERS. I HAVE RESTORED 2,808 AND COUNTING. .
WESTERN FRONT EXPLORERS.
PURPLE HEART VETERANS AND VOLUNTEERS.
Why do you do it?
DOING THE RIGHT THING!
NEEDED TO BE DONE.
STARTED AS A TASK FOR A FAMILY SEEKING A LOST VETERANS GRAVE. I WAS TO DISCOVER THAT SO MANY VETERAN GRAVE SITES IN MUNICIPAL CEMETERIES ARE NOT RECORDED, AND MANY STONE MARKERS ARE BELOW GROUND OVER TIME, DO TO WEATHER, SOIL CONDITIONS, THEY FINALLY DISAPPEAR. SO I DECEIDED IN 2017 TO START DIGGING UP THE HEAVY MARKER STONES, CLEANING AND REINFORCING THE THEIR FOUNDATION, RAISING THE STONES TO A FEW INCHES ABOVE GROUND. MY GRAND CHILDREN WERE 7 AND 3. BUT THEY WENT ALONG. OF COURSE NOW THEY ARE 13 AND 9 AND VERY HELPFUL. NO FUNDING! HOME DEPOT STORE MANAGERS WHOM ARE VETERANS DONATE FLAGS. I WAS PRESSUERED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATES OFFICE AND A NOTE FROM BERNIE MARCUS OF HOME DEPOT ENCOURAGED ME TO FILE FOR 501(3)C. WHICH I DID RECENTLY . I GAVE IT A NAME. WESTERN FRONT EXPLORERS! THE SECRETARY OF STATE APPROVED WESTERN FRONT EXPLORERS AS A NON PROFIT AND AS A CHARITY! 12/22/2022.