Navy Veteran Deep Cleans Forgotten WWII Headstones | Deep Cleaned

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Trae Zipperer is the founder of By Memorial Day, a nonprofit that seeks to promote the annual maintenance of veteran headstones located outside of national cemeteries. As a Navy veteran, Trae believes it's a disgrace that there are dirty and deteriorating veteran headstones around the country. His goal is to have volunteers dedicated to maintaining every veteran headstone in the United States and have the headstones cleaned every year by Memorial Day. In this video, Trae shows us how to properly clean a dirty veteran headstone and explains the importance of preserving the stories of our past.
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@metalcatmom5891 Жыл бұрын

This is very timely. I spoke with my mother last week and I'm about to become steward of my grandmother's brother's things and take over as caretaker of his grave. He was a medic in WWII, and killed by a sniper. He was 21 years old when he died. His death affected my grandmother her entire life and she told me lots about him and I feel like she would want me to do this, for them both.

@rrosemccoy 11 ай бұрын

I know she would love it!!! My big sisters tombstone has gotten black on it, and we just placed my dads new tombstone by it. You can see the difference. She died in the 80s when she was 14. My mom and I are planning on doing something like this for her grave. I hope to keep doing it after she’s passed. My grandfather was a war hero too, and I know his and my grandmothers headstone needs cleaning. I always try to leave a penny on a vets headstone.

@metalcatmom5891 11 ай бұрын

@rrosemccoy My Mom usually looks after MawMaw's, but I gave it a good scrubbing when my PawPaw died in 2021 before I made up the flowers for the vases before the graveside service. I should have taken an extra bucket and scrubed Henry's when I was there. As I am now officially the keeper of Henry's things including his purple heart and some letters he wrote my grandma, I'm going to have to set up a routine and help my Mom out more with MawMaw's and PawPaw's headstone since my aunt always flakes out on her and I'm going to be looking after Henry's stone.

@rrosemccoy 11 ай бұрын

@@metalcatmom5891 Oh wow! I would definitely treasure those letters and the Purple Heart definitely.

@EddieManning Жыл бұрын

Kudos for your respect and rememberance for those veterans and their loved ones who suffered for our present freedoms. Shame on those who think otherwise.

@CherrylMaree 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for your Service and for your continued kindness.

@clamanceclamance Жыл бұрын

These soldiers died at the age of 20-25. Such a young age to die.

@Cooldude-ko7ps Жыл бұрын

Some very close to their birthdays too. One had only turned 20 just 4 days before his death.

@Iam-me 7 ай бұрын

Sad 😢

@mrunaldeshpande5408 6 ай бұрын

I feel sorry for them😔

@LaurenceOConnor-fg4dk Ай бұрын

Thanks for stating the obvious. Anything else obvious to say? Americans! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@oOignignoktOo1 6 ай бұрын

I'm very happy to see Trae is getting the recognition he deserves. His videos are very informative and helped me out immensely with starting my project of cleaning graves in my local area cemeteries that were long neglected and now look like stones in a respective and dignified condition.

@chrisnolan8157 Жыл бұрын

OUTSTANDING work, Trae! Proud to know and have worked with you on this project! Wishing you much continued success to educate people and show how veteran burials should be treated!

@GratitudeGriot 10 ай бұрын

So much love and care shown to fellow veterans ❤🤍💙 my grandpa was a WW2 veteran. I would love to honor him in this way

@arr4512 Жыл бұрын

Trae - glad to see this video posted. I know you've been working hard to get your organization going and get more volunteers cleaning VA headstones. You inspired me! I've completed 77 headstones so far and have plans to continue. What you are doing is a wonderful thing, and I hope others join in!!

@sfoeric Жыл бұрын

Thank you for what you do our fallen heroes.

@mushyPeas602 Жыл бұрын

These graves should never be forgotten…

@itsjustbrandy4290 Жыл бұрын

I can't believe that one gravestone/site was just buried under overgrown shrubs.

@kreepykrawlyman Жыл бұрын

Honestly these videos are so satisfying to watch

@elsao1690 Жыл бұрын

What a great thing to do. Thank you.

@johngjacobi Жыл бұрын

Awesome. Hope this gets picked up on other socials. What a great Memorial Day weekend message.

@dstaff7373 Жыл бұрын

Respect 💯. That James Thomas Headstone🪦 Stuck out to me, only 4 days after his 20th Birthday He was Killed. R.I.P James Thomas Young Man he was...

@DecanFrost Жыл бұрын

You do good work sir, my deepest respects to you Trae.

@RainebowEvee 11 ай бұрын

I'm glad how much thought this guy puts in to preserving the story of these veterans. If done incorrectly, the cleaning could irreversibly damage the headstone...

@LividCoffee01 Жыл бұрын

Much respect 🫡

@bigorangeatl Жыл бұрын

Absolutely love this!! Respect Sir!🇺🇸

@robc.5745 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video and all your good work.A lot of folks forget about this or do it the wrong way which may ruin the stone ,You show the correct way.

@virginiawestcot3111 Жыл бұрын

Thank you ❤ God Bless

@mangographics225 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for this! ❣️

@patashswackyweatheradventu3361 17 күн бұрын

You are awesome for doing this

@luciusvorenus9445 Жыл бұрын

Outstanding, sir!

@barbarakosloski9260 Жыл бұрын

Congrats and thank you for respecting military personnel for their service to our country! Andrew Lumish, The Good Cemetarian, does the same in Florida. His website has everything you need to know about cleaning cemetery monuments, etc.

@martini668 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for doing this

@adamkimberling6609 11 ай бұрын

We also need to get the word out that veterans graves are also in forgotten cemeteries that have become overgrown, buried itself, or the stone is unreadable. These forgotten cemeteries some of them are in the woods, some of them are forgotten Church cemeteries,

@theloneviking9145 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this

@Unboundpuppet Жыл бұрын

Have a blessed Memorial Day everyone!

@maryannecross4220 Жыл бұрын

Thank you sir 💖🇬🇧

@deettekearns9092 Жыл бұрын

Great story.

@LoyalSlime Жыл бұрын

America, America, I gave my best to you. 🇺🇸

@hazelogrady2613 Жыл бұрын

Love this idea

@VulcanGunner 9 ай бұрын

Thank you, sir

@michelangeloplumbing4973 Жыл бұрын

This is GREAT !!! Needs to he shared.

@CL-we8tn Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@peterhaustein Жыл бұрын

awsome workk you do thk you

@rgms573 Жыл бұрын

What nice guy, I wish him the best

@ohno_da_idiot3230 Жыл бұрын

that's great

@jeepmega629 Жыл бұрын

I respect all the deep cleaners for cleaning all the stuff we use, but I especially respect this guy because he’s also preserving history.

@teawithmarmalade 27 күн бұрын

You’re doing God’s work. This warms my historian heart.

@kawser75 Жыл бұрын

very nice

@jennglow4647 Жыл бұрын

Cool 😀

@chilamilla Жыл бұрын

God bless America. Every Veteran, thank you.

@kaycure8629 10 ай бұрын

Trae....I completed the Catholic cemetery in my town....all the upright veteran stones. Done in 3 summers. Now working on city cemetery right next door to the Catholic one. Lots and lots more veteran stones in there. Scattered all over. They are looking nice also.

@Splat654 Жыл бұрын

Would the same organism grow on ceramics (in glazing or without it) if i put it outside? And what time it take for these organisms to grow so they make a stone dirty? I mean how much years at least, or less? My bunny has hassed away, and i had an idea to make a ceramic gravestone for her resting place.

@libertyvilleguy2903 11 ай бұрын

Glazed ceramic probably wouldn’t have any organic growth in it. Unglazed pottery might get some moss or lichen if it’s in the shade. Either way, it would take a couple years for it to develop.

@beautifullybrilliant7542 Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU BOTH BROTHERS AND SISTERS FOR WHAT YOU ARE DOING, TAKING TIME OUT OF YOUR LIVES TO BE HONOURABLE, RESPECTFULLY CLEANING THE HEADSTONES OF OUR ANCESTORS. ONE O😮F WHICH HAPPENED TO BE MY GREAT-UNCLE MY GRANDMUM'S BROTHER ROBERT WHO WE NEVER ACTUALLY GOT HIS REMAINS BACK IN ORDER TO HAVE A PROPER BURIAL IN ORDER TO HONOUR HIM. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION AT THE AGE OF 19 ONLY TWO WEEKS INTO HIS FIRST TOUR OF DUTY IN THE PACIFIC THEATRE. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HONOURABLE!

@Jkapricorn Жыл бұрын

why are you writing in all caps?

@youlikedyourowncomment5151 Жыл бұрын

STOP YELLING!!!

@beautifullybrilliant7542 Жыл бұрын

@@youlikedyourowncomment5151 First off I’m not yelling and second of all my phones on the fritz or at least my old one was so sometimes it would radically go to all caps btw You shouldn’t read so much into absolutely nothing

@Kevin-wj4ed Жыл бұрын

This man gave his life so people could be free again!!!!!!!!!

@AMagicProduction Жыл бұрын

God Bless These American Heroes

@Amitdas-gk2it Жыл бұрын

Interesting

@flip3172 Жыл бұрын

Dope afff 🙏🙏

@markbooe205 Жыл бұрын

May God Bless You 😊

@marlonlasisi8304 Жыл бұрын

🙏🏾

@HanTheProphet 11 ай бұрын

People should just do this locally, it shouldn’t be up to this guy to remember those who fought for our freedoms

@thew0lf98 Жыл бұрын

Most folks don't know this but we all die twice. The first being our physical presence on this Earth and the latter being the memories in the people that we made an impression on while we were alive. When they're gone, that's it. That's why it's always been important to preserve any relics or reminders.

@MaddysinLeigh 10 ай бұрын

So there’s a graveyard by my house and the previous owners were arrested for I think tax evasion or fraud or something but they hadnt been maintaining the graveyard. My parents went down on there bikes and cleaned up some of the gravestones. They didn’t go all out with cleaner or anything but they pulled the grass off of them and swept away the dirt. My dad is a navy vet and it pissed him off because some of the headstones were military. I wanna say one was a 18-20 yo kid that died in Afghanistan.

@mcpre65 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, I’m heading over to clean my Uncle Mikes… 4:54 4:57

@sandywhite4042 9 ай бұрын

I wish there was more of you people. At every Cemetery. One of my mom family Cemetery. The stones are fall in their, flat stones and one is a Veterans. Every year she goes there not one AMERICAN FLAG ON THEIR STONES. She's asked why isn't her relatives ever have a flag. They'll get one and every year they don't .So in her car she has ALOT of the right size AMERICAN Flags for all there Graves. Now ,I've noticed, in my other families grave yard. Not one of my great Uncles and Great,Great fathers have a flag but,others do . They all served and one died over sea. My great Gramm never got his body. You do we talk to? Plus ,know I've found my blood grandfather, he doesn't have one and I'm his only living relatives Others in his Cemetery have them.

@acidwashedgenes9792 Жыл бұрын

He's the founder of memorial day

@dertobbe1176 Жыл бұрын

Who plants bushes in front of A gravestone 🧐

@JohnWick-hx7bc 9 ай бұрын

Every cemetery should have a cleaner paid by the government to make sure all government workers stones are cleaned

@thefreshest2379 Жыл бұрын

Their stories might disappear but the effects of their lives will continue for a while.

@galidroo Жыл бұрын

Truth. Afghanistan is MUCH safer

@kirankumarsukumar Жыл бұрын

How do i donate to this cause ?

@rawbacon Жыл бұрын

The website is "By Memorial Day", you can donate there. If you're interested in donating your time there's information there too on how to clean graves......And his KZfaq channel is called "Honor Your DNA".

@resiliencewithin Жыл бұрын

Emotional

@mark314158 Жыл бұрын

I thought that The American Battle Monuments Commission took care of these graves?

@boldjawad Жыл бұрын

Why isn't their family members caring about their relative's grave??

@ireallydontknow8616 Жыл бұрын

Some of the headstones are so old. They don't have family to take care of them any longer

@metalcatmom5891 Жыл бұрын

I remember my great uncle because of my grandmother. He was 21 when he died. He had no children. I'm the last one who cares, and that is because of my grandmother. He died 40 years before I was born. Once I'm gone, I guess that will be the end for both of us as I do not have children.

@26hurban Жыл бұрын

How can I help this guy with his goal? Ok, I found out in the last 5 seconds of the video.

@righteousone1 Жыл бұрын

When your own government doesn't care about the maintenance of your gravestone then you should understand the reality of your worth to the government.

@davidjacobson6791 Жыл бұрын

So because the United States government doesn’t have an official department of Gravestone cleaning, they see no worth in human life specifically that of their own citizens? God you are almost as dense as the Headstones he’s cleaning.

@LuisMendoza-pp9qi 7 ай бұрын

Why not use PowerWashing?? It can remove Everything with zero effort and at a fraction of the time.... with NO chemicals

@matrixcmitech 6 ай бұрын

Not a good idea. Historical preservationists DO NOT recommend it. Use the method demonstrated in this video.

@LuisMendoza-pp9qi 6 ай бұрын

@@matrixcmitech but.... is just stone... is not going to erode as long as you use only water with NO abrasives, and you can clean a full tombstone in 3 minutes!!!👍

@drabberfrog Жыл бұрын

Am I the only one who kinda thinks that this is a huge waste of time and resources? If that veteran is dead and all the people that knew them are dead then what's the point? Burying the dead in cemeteries is a huge waste of space which couid be used for something actually useful or just be undeveloped land for nature. The number of dead people never decreases so we're gonna have to get rid of these graves at some point or not bury anyone. Instead of donating your money or time so someone can polish a stone with grime on it why not use it to help the living, or in other words the people that actually currently still exist who could actually benefit from your generosity.

@Splat654 Жыл бұрын

I understand your view, but i also think these can serve historical value. I am not American though.

@andrewreynolds912 Жыл бұрын

I can understand, but as an American, letting the dead like this have bad graves is consider bad by many, not to mention the things that these families went through my great grandfather was in the navy and was a AA gunner during the battle of the coral sea so no it may seem like a waste but if you don't care then you basically don't care about other people who have gave their lives is very insensitive if you ask yourself thay

@tronk5598 Жыл бұрын

this is the most braindead yank take ive ever read lmao

@HandFromCoffin Жыл бұрын

I don't think you meant to but you just created a straw man argument. You are wanting to discuss should we start creating more and burying less. The video is about cleaning and respecting CURRENT grave stones. Or.. you are arguing to dig up all the grave sites and put in some condos... But you made a straw man argument by saying isn't graves a huge waste of time and we shouldn't bury people from a video about cleaning current grave stones.

@DavidNunezPNW Жыл бұрын

This dude is riding fir US imperialism way too much

@kalamari3288 Жыл бұрын

The US has done imperialist stuff. But really? You want to talk about this on a WWII video? I don’t think you should go there in the war we fought defensively against Nazis and fascists.

@jasonb9562 Жыл бұрын

Cause WW2 was an imperialist war?

@Alex-ug9wx Жыл бұрын

Say you have no idea about the causes of US involvement in WW2.

@baizawai Жыл бұрын

@@Alex-ug9wx He's supposedly an educated journalist who came here illegally and is proud of doing so. He doesn't care.