author of a flag and put it in a park dedicated to their son. do you come here a lot. i do. i come through here if i go to work or on the way home from work i will come in just to look at the flag and look at the monument and pay honor. do you shed tears here? oh, yes. nor man once. we have two choices. we can either mourn the loss or rejoice in what we had. staff sergeant jeremy vrooman was killed in iraq. he could have gone last but he took the lead. he put the needs of others ahead of his own. he wanted to bring his men home a lye and good shape and did he that. this flag pole is for johnny sills who came home from iraq in post-traumatic stress disorder and died in a motorcycle crash. he already knew david larson helping military families suffer a loss never dreaming she would be one of them. thought was to remember our
author of a flag and put it in a park dedicated to their son. do you come here a lot. i do. i come through here if i go to work or on the way home from work i will come in just to look at the flag and look at the monument and pay honor. do you shed tears here? oh, yes. nor man once. we have two choices. we can either mourn the loss or rejoice in what we had. staff sergeant jeremy vrooman was killed in iraq. he could have gone last but he took the lead. he put the needs of others ahead of his own. he wanted to bring his men home a lye and good shape and did he that. this flag pole is for johnny sills who came home from iraq in post-traumatic stress disorder and died in a motorcycle crash. he already knew david larson helping military families suffer a loss never dreaming she would be one of them. thought was to remember our
posttraumatic stress disorder, he died two years ago in an unexplained motorcycle crash. johnny s mother had been working with david larson, helping him with his cause to locate military families who suffered a loss and donate a flagpole and a flag. she never dreamed she d be one of them. my whole thought was to remember our fallen and honor them and let the families know they re never going to be forgotten, that others remember as well, but i never thought i was going to be on the receiving end of having a flag put in, near our home. i can just see my son smiling down, you know, because he was so proud of his country and his flag. reporter: this comes from a tremendous amount of people, that will never know you, never met you, but yet, their belief in freedom is such that they just provide the foundation with money, so that we can honor those that paid the ultimate
author of a flag and put it in a park dedicated to their son. do you come here a lot. i do. i come through here if i go to work or on the way home from work i will come in just to look at the flag and look at the monument and pay honor. do you shed tears here? oh, yes. nor man once. we have two choices. we can either mourn the loss or rejoice in what we had. staff sergeant jeremy vrooman was killed in iraq. he could have gone last but he took the lead. he put the needs of others ahead of his own. he wanted to bring his men home a lye and good shape and did he that. this flag pole is for johnny sills who came home from iraq in post-traumatic stress disorder and died in a motorcycle crash. he already knew david larson helping military families suffer a loss never dreaming she would be one of them. thought was to remember our
american families that lost a service member. rick leventhal is live in the new york newsroom. reporter: one thing you ll notice in this story is, david larson doesn t just show up with a crew and start installing the flagpoles, he gets the families involved, this helps create a last be tribute and lasting family, too. put it in the middle? it s overwhelming. it s very, very rewarding. i enjoy i enjoy getting the children involved, the mothers, dads, involved in the process of the installations. every day, they re going to be coming here, for the rest of their lives, this will always be known as the pole that stood for their dad. as a marine, johnny sills served in panama, khrepbt to college, met his wife, had two sons and decided to join the army national guard but his tour in iraq in 04 and 05 changed him, his family says he came home with