Memories of Honor

Our program creates online and offline campaigns throughout the year, creating unique opportunities, experiences, and events that bring people of all ages and backgrounds together to honor our Nation’s fallen heroes and remember those left behind.

Programs within MD365 include but are not limited to the following:

Wall of Gratitude:
Fallen Hero Memorial Bibs
Remembrance Packages
Athletic Sports Team Activations
Endurance Races with Memorial Tributes
Country Music Remembers

These programs are broken down below.

Participants nationwide raise awareness of American military loss of life, while helping to bring comfort to the surviving families. They do this by adopting a fallen service member (from Medals of Honor) and wearing his/her name on a special memorial back bib during an endurance race/sporting / athletic event. Once they complete their activity, the participant sends Medals of Honor their personal finisher's medal. Participants are welcome to send, cards, letter or any other tokens they would like the family to have. We then repackage the medal along with information about the racer and his/her event. These packages are a visual act of love, letting the family know that they are not alone and their loved one's sacrifice wasn't in vain. We honor all branches of service, all dates of death, and all loss of life.

Wall of Gratitude:
We will collect 5,000+ handwritten messages of love and gratitude. These messages are written by event attendees, placed on the wall for all to read, and later mailed to the fallen hero's family.

We partner with communities, organizations, events, and brand partners to provide the Wall of Gratitude at a variety of activating across the country. Some of these partners and brands include but are not limited to:

KindSnacks
Rocky Boots
Professional Bull Riding Association
NFR - Cowboy Christmas
Las Vegas Events
The Korn Ferry Tour

Throughout the year and across the country, Memories of Honor provides in-person and virtual endurance (and other sporting events) participants with Fallen Hero Memorial Bibs. These bibs are worn or carried with the participant during their race or event. The full-color bibs contain our national database's rank, name, branch, and date of passing of the fallen service members. Bibs are purposefully handwritten by volunteers so that the families know that someone took the time to read and write their loved one's name. The bibs' backside contains a call to action, asking the participants to take a photo of themselves holding the bib and tag us on social media to give the families a chance to see who honored their loved one. Memories of Honor provides these Fallen Hero Memorial Bibs to participants.

Being based in Nashville, TN honoring our fallen is a natural fit with the country music industry. We team up with country music artists of all levels to honor our fallen servicemen and women at their shows, concerts, and through their music videos.

Examples

Charlies Daniels: We teamed up with Charlie on his final tour before his passing. We arranged to have Gold Star families attend each of Charlie's show dates (across the country). They were given tickets, backstage passes, and a meet and greet with Charlie. One lucky family even received Charlie's bow after his performance.

Inspirational Country Music Awards: We provided each attendee with the name and information of a fallen service member to honor & remember during the event.

"I'd Die For You" music video. Our founder Amy Cotta, played a US Soldier leaving her husband behind for deployment. The extended music video included a memorial tribute and contained the faces of fallen service members within our national database.

Since 2017 we have teamed up with various college/university athletic teams across the country to honor & remember our fallen during their Salute to Service games. Some of these sports include Men & Women's basketball, Women's soccer, Baseball. Our college partners include but are not limited to Boston College, Bucknell University, and Vanderbilt. These recognitions vary from year to year and by the team and the sport. At most events, the student-athletes will wear the name of a fallen and dedicate their game to the fallen and their family. This can include but is not limited to wearing names on warmup shirts, helmet batting stickers, Nameplates on football uniforms, and most recently, Vanderbilt baseball has special Nike cleats containing the name, date of passing, branch, and home state of fallen heroes.

Throughout the year and across the country, we provide Fallen Hero Memorial Signs and Banners to partnered events, organizations, and communities to honor and recognize the cost of freedom. These signs and street pole banners contain photos, rank, name, branch, and date of loss of fallen service members. These signs and banners are used to line streets, endurance racecourses, and other various events and activities all across the country.