After a long period of pandemic isolation, many people may desire to eschew commemoration for three days of communal frivolity. We should reject that urge.
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This weekend, hundreds of volunteers will gather at Arlington National Cemetery to visit the graves of people they have no connection to. Throughout the day, they will place wooden flags to honor thousands of veterans on behalf of loved ones who weren’t able to travel to Arlington. The Honor Project, as the effort is called, is the brainchild of Alexandria’s Emily Domenech, who has teamed up with the Pennsylvania-based Travis Manion Foundation, a non-profit that offers support to veterans and the families of fallen soldiers. Together, Domenech and Manion Foundation founder Ryan Manion (who named the organization after her brother, a Marine killed in Iraq in 2007) have gathered 300 volunteers to help pay tribute to 4,000 veterans this weekend. “Memorial Day is [when] civilians are really looking for a way to honor and be grateful for veterans,” says Domenech, a senior policy advisor House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. “We’ll give people
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Last year, on a day Emily Domenech planned to spend 30 minutes at her grandfather s grave, she ended up at the cemetery for six hours to honor soldiers she d never known and share photos of their gravesites on Twitter for their loved ones.
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