Today Fox News published an opinion piece by my friend Kevin Ferris titled The incredible ceremony honoring ALL who have served — even those veterans with no family to mourn for them. Here’s the opening part:

It’s the last Thursday of the month. By 1:30 p.m. on this blue sky April afternoon, the faithful are lining up behind the administration building of the Washington Crossing National Cemetery in Bucks County, Pa.

“Here for the ‘Unattended’?” one man asks another.

“Unattended” is shorthand for an act of grace on the part of the cemetery’s staff, its volunteers, and hundreds of other supporters. At 2 o’clock on the last Thursday of every month this group stands in as family for vets whose memorial services would otherwise go unattended, ensuring that all due honors are received. “It’s something that’s got to be done,” one man says.

Kevin is an Army veteran, former member of the editorial board of the Philadelphia Inquirer, vice president of communications at Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, and co-author of Vets and Pets: Wounded Warriors and the Animals That Help Them Heal. 

As with all great writers, Kevin lets the facts speak for themselves as he tells the touching and moving story of the living honoring and remembering those to whom we owe so much.

Happy Memorial Day.