and grief and also pride and gratitude. griff: we are now joined by ryan minion, ryan, thank you for sharing that very personal video of travis coming home. what are your reflection this is memorial day weekend? wow, to watch that it brought back a lot and for me i would say every day is memorial day. i think about my brother and the men and women he served with and sacrificed every single day but i think it s an incredible time for us to come together as a country and pay our respects and celebrate the freedoms that we hold so dear by honoring these men and women and if it s one day out of the year, make sure you do something on that day to remember and reflect on their service and sacrifice. griff give when we watched travis coming home in the video
me. alicia: absolutely. senator roger marshall, thank you. griff: there are many heros who have given their lives for this country. today i want to remember travis with his story in iraq. before his final deployment to iraq, marine first lieutenant travis left his family with a powerful motivation as to why he was going back into the fight. if not me, then who, he said. but on april 29th, 2007, the experienced iraq war ambushed with fellow marines while searching a suspected insurgent house in province. his father colonel tom remembers. travis was the only one that didn t make it back, but i know he would be proud to know that his actions saved the lives of everyone in the patrol that day.
griff: travis best friend breaking down while honoring the hero. i was lucky enough to [inaudible] he was a great friend. griff: brandon would make the ultimate sacrifice just 3 years later on an ultimate battlefield in the mountains of afghanistan. now brothers forever, buried side by side in section 60 in worriling national cemetery, a bond once honored by president obama. the friendship between first lieutenant travis and lieutenant brandon reflects the meaning of memorial day. the 5 simple words, serving as amontra to inspire others into service. and for the first time, his sister ryan who now runs the foundation in his name sharing footage of her brother returning in a flagged draped coffin bringing back memories of pain
project, what is it? it was started last year by a young woman emily, it wasn t honor project yet. a young woman who went to visit grandfather in arlington and sent out a tweet, hey, how can i help those who can t be here. i will visit your lovered ones graves. visited over 60 grave site that is day and joined up with us after memorial day and you guys know how to put things together and bring out volunteers and we have now formed the honor project. we have over 300 volunteers that are going to be visiting 4,000 graves in arlington. we see you with your father colonel tom manion and your son travis named after your brother. that s right, we were able to bring my son and my father and i went to place a flag at travis grave this morning and when i look at my son, 7 year s old named after his uncle, it s a reminder for me that we need to make sure that this next
generation understands the sacrifices that were made, i they understand what our military men and women represent to this country. griff: what they are placing is this flag, you can see the travis manion flag here. you actually gave high honor to place one. general kelly s son died in 2010, all intended to inspire the next generation to service. absolutely. you re seeing now it s quite remarkable to step foot just in the first place in arlington national cemetery but to go to general kelly s son grave site and after we heard general kelly talking about the lost of his son and he says, you know, we all lose people but really when you lose someone like a son in combat, it s a whole different level. it is. i think you re mixed with the