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Military Records Recovery and Reconstruction.

09/11/2026

9/11/2001…..NEVER FORGET 🇺🇸

07/25/2026

Boston by foot, great little Memorial Park. Spotted an Honor to “Our own Home Town Hero”…. Marine Cpl. Nicholas G. Xiarhos 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

07/20/2026

Honoring Cape Cod’s fallen. Big Nick’s Ride 7/19/26. It was a beautiful day for an amazing cause.

06/24/2026

Some days running a nonprofit feels impossible.

But then I remember why we started.

Thousands of veterans had records lost or destroyed, leaving families without answers and heroes without the recognition they earned.

At Ashes to Honor, we work to recover those stories and preserve their legacy.

If you'd like to learn more, volunteer, sponsor a mission, or support our work, we'd love to connect.

www.ashestohonor.org

05/04/2026

After meeting with the National Archives in College Park, Maryland, I finally have some important information for anyone searching for military records.

Going forward, our records request forms will be updated to be much more detailed. The biggest takeaway is this: the more information you can provide, the better chance we have of locating or reconstructing records.

For reconstruction cases especially, details are everything. Things like:

* Full names (including middle initials)
* Dates of service
* Units and duty stations
* Letters with return addresses
* Deployment locations
* Any documents, photos, or personal records

Even small details can make a huge difference when we’re doing in-person research.

For personnel files, it’s the same idea—the more specific you can be, the better. Anything that helps narrow down timeframes or locations gives us a stronger starting point.

This trip was a huge step forward for the work we’re doing. We’re learning more every time we go, and it’s going to directly impact how many veterans we’re able to help moving forward.

If you or your family are looking for records, start gathering whatever information you can now—it matters more than you think.

I’ll be traveling back to D.C. again this month for a full week to continue working through current requests. The next major step will be traveling to Missouri to access personnel files in person. This is a critical piece of the process and something we can’t avoid if we want to keep moving cases forward.

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