Photo courtesy of Honoring Our Legacy
Happy New Year! We start the new year looking forward but it's also important to look back.
A powerful new chapter in remembrance has begun.
The Fields of Honor Foundation has officially launched its newly redesigned Fields of Honor Virtual Memorial, bringing together more than 15 years of dedication, research, and remembrance into one modern, accessible space.
What began in 2008 with the story of a single American soldier has grown into a living memorial honoring more than 45,000 U.S. service members who gave their lives in Europe during World War II. This new platform unites the former Fields of Honor database with The Faces of Margraten, ensuring that every name is paired, whenever possible, with a face, a story, and a legacy.
The revamped memorial allows stories to be enriched with photographs, documents, and soon audio and video. Related soldiers are thoughtfully connected, and information is easier than ever to explore, share, and download, whether you’re researching one individual or studying history at a broader scale.
The design looks to the future while honoring the past, using familiar colors inspired by the green fields of honor, the red, white, and blue of the American flag, and the marble crosses and Stars of David that mark these sacred resting places.
This achievement would not have been possible without the dedication of volunteers, partners, and nearly 400 donors, many of them relatives of the fallen or adopters of graves, whose generosity made the new memorial possible. The cemeteries themselves continue to be lovingly maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission.
If you believe remembrance matters and that history should never be reduced to numbers, take time to explore the new memorial and the stories it preserves.
Visit the new Fields of Honor Virtual Memorial:
https://fieldsofhonor.com/memorial/
Because remembrance is not just about the past; it’s a promise to the future.
