VeteranGraves.com Tutorial How to Register as a Volunteer, Add Cemeteries, and Add Graves

VeteranGraves.com is where we will work together as Volunteers to document and memorialize every veteran grave in fine military detail. VeteranGraves.com was created to be easy to use, intuitive, and comprehensive to enable patriotic people who want to honor military heroes of our past to ensure No Veteran Ever Dies. Follow the three step process to join us in this effort to remember what they did for us by Registering as a Volunteer, Adding Cemeteries in your local community, and Adding Graves of veterans buried in your local community Cemeteries.
Encourage your family and friends to Register at VeteranGraves.com to be a part of this worthy cause to maintain the graves of military veterans. Take your time and really get to know each veteran buried beneath the forgotten veteran headstones covered in dark biological growth and grimy filth. VeteranGraves.com is the web site where you can share every detail about what the military veteran did while in service to his or her country. Slow down, do your research, and give your best effort to honor each veteran Grave you add to VeteranGraves.com. Each veteran sacrificed in one way or another to defend the country we too often take for granted.
Once you Register to become a VeteranGraves.com Volunteer, you can begin Adding Cemeteries. Take your time, do your homework, make some phone calls, whatever it takes, to become familiar with the Cemetery and the people who watch over it. Most older Cemeteries will not have a sign posted to inform you about the contact person, the history, and the story. It is critically important for us to discover the Cemetery steward, because we need permission to honor veterans with clean veteran headstones, kempt Graves, and grave flags. Local funeral home directors and local monument company owners are fantastic resources for information about local cemeteries. Call these people and ask them if they know who is in charge of a certain Cemetery. More times than not, they will know, and give you the contact person's name and phone number.
Once you Add a Cemetery, you can then begin Adding Graves of veterans buried in that Cemetery. Pretend you are the Guard for this Unknown Soldier, and take it upon yourself to ensure your veteran becomes KNOWN! Headstones have limited space for etched information, so dig deep into the veteran's past to discover the many fascinating details. Sources include, Google search results, Wikipedia, Ancestry.com, people who have the veteran in their family tree online, Findagrave.com, people who have added photos to a veteran's Memorial on Findagrave.com, Newspapers.com, genealogy rooms at local public libraries, FOLD3.com, death certificates that you can order from the state department of health, and more.
I hope you enjoy becoming a Volunteer with VeteranGraves.com and hope your efforts to honor hometown military heroes will bring you a newfound sense of purpose. It is vitally important that we work together with a sense of urgency to compile the military service stories of each veteran.

[@freedombro6502]

Great mission you have , hope you are still working on this .

[@theyfaceeast]

I am still leading this effort, but our home flooded badly during Hurricane Ian 11 months ago and we have been in recovery mode every day. We just had our interior doors installed today. They will continue trimming the doors, trimming the windows, installing baseboards, and installing crown molding all week. We will eventually get back to a finished home, but it's exhausting financially and emotionally. I will be leading a veteran headstone cleaning event on Saturday September 2nd in Ebenezer, GA at Georgia Salzburger Society, 2980 Ebenezer Rd, Rincon, GA 31326.

[@shannonspage9360]

I had the honor to be able to visit Arlington cemetery several years ago. The whole cemetery is honored as a shrine. Very dignified with many signs to be silent. Visited so many patriotic monuments and graves within. The memorial for the NASA challenger launch. It was a very memorable experience. It would be a great honor to be able to go find other veterans in our community cemeteries and revitalize their markers.

[@theyfaceeast]

You are definitely one of us who "gets it." I love my opportunities to visit Arlington National Cemetery. Each veteran grave, regardless of location, should receive the same level of care and respect as provided at Arlington.

[@charlesdavis2165]

I've been a FindaGrave photo contributor for years. I always made it a habit to take veterans' gravestone photos (regardless of whether one already existed on the F.A.G. website), just so I could learn more about their particular regiment, where they fought, what certain ranks meant. I'm so thrilled that you've created a space to specifically honor our military. Count me in for uploads from Southeast Texas.

[@theyfaceeast]

Hi Charles Davis! I am grateful for any and all contributions by Volunteers willing to help document the military service of our veterans of the past. If each American would add just one veteran grave to VeteranGraves.com this week, we would have them all by Wednesday!

[@theyfaceeast]

From VeteranGraves.com website programmer and host:
Hi Trae, I can’t find anything wrong. I ran a malware scanner on the website and it’s clean.
People will install virus/malware protection software and sometimes they can report false negatives. That’s probably what is happening here. Otherwise we would get tons of people complaining.

[@andrewevans1658]

I will add this to my project list!

[@theyfaceeast]

Thank you!

[@freqenc]

Great instruction video. Mad respects.

[@steven.h0629]

Excellent episode.. thanks Trae 🤜💥🤛

[@theyfaceeast]

Thanks Steven!

[@lynnwaters2557]

Very informative and I am glad to see that you are honoring our veterans.

[@theyfaceeast]

It is a cause vital to our national security and continuation as a sovereign nation.

[@willieoakley2336]

This is so wonderful what you are doing for the vets God bless you

[@theyfaceeast]

I am simply the spokesperson. The ones to thank are the volunteers all across the country who are taking it upon themselves to take up this cause to clean every veteran headstone in their local cemeteries.

[@a1f1l65]

Thank you for this video!

[@theyfaceeast]

You're welcome! I can envision the day when all veteran graves have been Added to VeteranGraves.com, we have a Volunteer assigned to each veteran grave, and each Volunteer reports their maintenance tasks on a quarterly basis. Maintenance tasks will include headstone cleaning and grave flag replacement.

[@usmcalgm_ret_usmc_sdsd]

I want to join your efforts and enroll as a volunteer to clean a veteran's bronze plague here in San Diego. I also need information on how to clean bronze in a safe manner. Thxu >usmc ret.

[@theyfaceeast]

Hi Henry. You mentioned VeteranGraves.com link taking you back to this video. I'm not sure exactly what you're doing. VeteranGraves.com is a standalone website. This video is a TH-cam video. I have a link to this video on the VeteranGraves.com home page.

[@arkansasboy45]

You need to show links in your videos.

[@theyfaceeast]

I agree. However, I simply don't know how to do it. My way of accomplishing the same thing is to direct people to my website ByMemorialDay.com where I have posted links to some of my TH-cam videos teaching potential Volunteers what they need to know in order to begin cleaning veteran headstones.

[@arkansasboy45]

@Honor Your DNA have you ever ordered medallions for veterans family purchased headstones and mounted them?

[@theyfaceeast]

@@arkansasboy45 I know about the veteran medallions, but I've not ordered one yet. I've only seen a limited few affixed to privately purchased headstones. My grandfather has a privately purchased headstone and I've considered ordering a medallion for him. There are two ways to affix the medallion to the existing headstone. First, you can use an epoxy that I believe comes with the medallion. Or, second, you can drill a hole through the existing headstone and affix the medallion with a bolt, washer, and nut. I'm not really a fan of either option for affixing the medallions. I don't trust the epoxy will last out in the weather. And I'm concerned about drilling a hole through a perfect slab of granite or marble.

[@arkansasboy45]

@Honor Your DNA I understand your concerns about affixing a medallion but epoxy seems to be a quite permanent solution.

[@RVGMInc]

Trae, you are a shipmate! @RVGM-LTJNPhillipsJr