The primary objective to keep in mind when cleaning headstones is Do No Harm. I use wooden paint stir sticks and tongue suppressors for scraping thick accumulation off natural stone. The safest thing is to use tools that are not made of metal. I personally use metal tools around the edges of stones, but I am keenly aware of the risks and I move the tools slowly and deliberately to Do No Harm. I have received numerous recommendations from viewers who use various types of tools made out of wood or plastic that work well for them. So just use good judgement and always maintain a mindset of Do No Harm.

It really is God's work. The United States is God's country, established and maintained by well documented Divine intervention.

@@theyfaceeast Yep, it's even part of Daniel's prophecy in the Bible. Read Daniel 2: 31-45. The U.S. is represented by the feet and toes of the image and this prophecy confirms it will still be around when God's Kingdom crushes it and all other human governments, SOON.

These veteran headstone monuments mark sacred ground. Cleaning the entire stone is therefore a requirement if desiring to show reverent respect. The brilliant white stone is visible from a distance from all directions deservedly drawing attention to the burial site of a military veteran.

it was b4 there was a war

I receive some nasty comments from viewers. Which one are you referencing?

​@@theyfaceeast oh i was just being angry at youtube not anybody else, i refreshed the video like 3 times trying to find my original comment and it just wasn't popping up lol

@@exstacc1886 Is this the comment? "Born before WW1 ended, died before WW2 ended. Life for young men is brutal, we sent practical children to their deaths." If so, I didn't find the comment offensive in any way.

​@@theyfaceeast there's a rant under that comment that I thought got the entire original comment removed, so, when I couldn't find it entirely, I got a little upset and posted a comment separate from either of these we're commenting on currently, but that one doesn't seem to be popping up for me anymore anyway so don't worry about it, it was just me saying "if youtube wants to remove my stuff without telling me, i won't give them any warning either"

@@exstacc1886 okay.

And if they only knew how indifferent the American population would become, allowing their graves to be untended.

​@@theyfaceeast Americans have become so complacent because we've lost our culture to Corporations and government programs that are too low effort to benefit society. Our education system doesn't teach any practical life skills, and we're just expected to supplement our education with our parents' parenting, but in the modern age, everybody's too stuck to their phones to give anybody the time of day or a single care in the world. Sometimes I cry when I realize how fucked this world is nowadays; We do not need to survive anymore, we just have to exist. I know I'm complacent and I do not believe I could do the same things young men my age did back then, but that's also because I didn't grow up needing the same life skills. In corporate America, there is only respect for the self, but respect towards the self without respect towards others is not respect, it is ego, devilry. American society is built on sweatshop labor from foreign countries so we can have lavish lifestyles, while corporations steal water from natives with smiles on their faces and lies from their lips.

@@exstacc1886 AMEN.

I would bet there aren't many Americans who know which unit their uncle served in. Bravo to you!

D/2 is for killing living biological plants such as algae on natural stone. I personally have not observed biological growth on bronze, so I don't see why it would be necessary to apply D/2 onto bronze. However, I would use D/2 on the base stone upon which the bronze grave marker is affixed.

This is definitely a team effort with me taking on the role of spokesperson for veteran graves NOT located in a National Cemetery. The new goal is Perpetual Care for all veteran graves NOT located in a National Cemetery.

@@theyfaceeast I have had family members serving in the US military since 1941 so again thank you for your hard work. The world needs more people like you. Grandpa Thomas: Early 1941-1946? He died in 1994, was at Pearl Harbor six months before the December 7th attack and stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. Wish I had asked him more questions back then. Grandpa Webb: 1944?/1945?-1946?/1950? All I know is that he was in the army during WWII, he died in 1979 at the age of 52. Uncle Mike: served in Vietnam, died in 2006. Grandpa Buddy: my Grandma's second husband also served in Vietnam, died in 2004 the day after I graduated from highschool. Aunt Michelle: USMC 1988?-1992, because they wouldn't let her fight on the front line during the first gulf war. Cousin Dwayne: USN 2000-20??. He was at Pearl Harbor on 9/11/2001, was in Afghanistan and Iraq. I hope you have a wonderful day.

@@illinoiscentralrailroadfan6015 sounds like your family is among the Warrior Class of Americans. Mine too. It seems odd to me, but there are actually families in America with no active duty members of the Armed Forces nor veterans among them. I thought everyone had a grandfather or father who served in the military, but that isn't true for everyone. And you even have an AUNT Michelle who is a Marine! Once a Marine, always a Marine.

I am working towards perpetual care for ALL veteran graves.

As Americans, as a people, we have a sacred obligation to go to the far reaches of the world to retrieve our Soldier Dead. We will literally spend more than $1,000,000 to find, identify, and repatriate one fallen member of our Armed Forces. But somehow, the issue of reverent perpetual care for our veteran graves fell through the cracks. We spend untold billions of dollars for all kinds of nonsensical activities, so we have no excuse for our veteran headstones covered in filth. I am making it an issue. Eventually, all Americans will recognize this as a top priority issue.

A volunteer must obtain permission from the cemetery steward prior to performing any work within the cemetery grounds. I have a video on this channel explaining how to go about obtaining permission. I started this movement in response to the City of Fort Myers, FL accusing me of trespassing in response to my phone call seeking guidance on how to go about obtaining permission to clean veteran headstones within the city's segregated African American cemetery. I alerted the local NBC News affiliate and they immediately ran a story on it on the local evening news broadcast. That was my first stand for veteran headstone cleaning. Provided the volunteer is following the best practices protocol issued by the National Cemetery Association, there is no good excuse for a cemetery steward to deny permission. But I tell volunteers to just move on to another cemetery in your county, and then another, to demonstrate proficiency. Then go back to the cemetery steward who originally denied you permission.

Amen. Well said. It doesn't seem like this could have actually happened, but it did. Now we have to address the problem. Perpetual care for all veteran grave sites.

Please explain the difference between attached and assigned. I'm always willing to learn something new. Thank you!

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I love international Comments! Thank you.

God bless you and your sister! I wish I knew exactly how many people are answering this call to clean veteran headstones, and how many veteran headstones have been cleaned, but we will eventually get to a point where we have a volunteer assigned to each veteran grave. The volunteers will be enabled to report their activities, so we can know that every veteran's grave is being provided with perpetual care.

I'm just doing what I feel God asked me to do. I'm not sure why he chose me for this task, but I will do my best. It is a hard row to hoe, but I believe we can get to a place where Americans show respect for our veterans of the past. America literally goes to the ends of the earth to retrieve our fallen warriors, identify them, and repatriate their sacred remains back to their hometown cemetery. In some cases more than $1,000,000 is spent during the process of bringing an American Warrior home. But then we do nothing, not one penny, to provide perpetual care for the veteran's final resting place. This will soon change.

Do you live near LaCross, FL?

While I would like to say these men would have done things differently had they known Americans today would not remember their sacrifices, I truly believe they would have gone into harm's way regardless.

Thank you for watching. There's a deeply seated reason why we've allowed our veteran headstones to fall into distress. I haven't been able to articulate it yet. But there is a reason why Americans just don't care enough about this issue to be willing to stand up for it. A clean headstone for a young man who gave his life for us is simply not a priority. I will keep trying.

Oh I didn't take down my Purple Heart Medal video because of haters. I'm an American, a veteran and a Christian; nothing scares me. I took it down because it wasn't resonating with potential viewers. It should have gone viral, but only had 1,000 views in the first 23 hours. It should have had hundreds of thousands of views, maybe millions. The objective was to reach President Trump via the video so I could present him with my grandfather's Purple Heart Medal during the RNC. I wasn't going to reach him with only 1,000 views per day. Hopefully, my veteran headstone cleaning initiative will somehow reach him and I'll get to meet with him to discuss the issue.

@@theyfaceeast need to send a superchat to one of the independant news channels that is in touch with the trump team, I'm thinking TimcastIRL or the Benny Show, Charlie Kirk etc. Probably too late now, sadly. I thought I'd gone mad when I couldn't find it anywhere. Strange it had no views as I saw it, assumedly from an X post. I bet youtube shenanigans

@@sintaxera My biggest challenge is I'm only one man. I use KZfaq as my platform for raising awareness about our veteran headstones covered in nastiness. With more than 5.5 million views, which ain't too bad for an older guy on his own, I need help from those viewers. I would think that someone out of those 5.5 million views has a direct relationship with every influential person capable of helping to spread the word. But I never hear from any of these influential people. I can't explain it. But I keep trying. Someday, an influential person will want to get involved with this cause.

Not even for the vets either, VA is known to screw up big time. What happened to those “Christian” values he talks about, loving one’s neighbor as oneself? Govt and the religion part of it sponsors doesn’t do that. Neither for civilians nor for servicemembers. These guys died in valor for a country and a cause, but the country would throw them away no problem.

Forgotten war? Weird way to describe d-day and ww2 in general.

@@onesevenninewest A good reason to never join the military, they'll chew you up, and spit you out.

@@johnwray393 What are those?

@@onesevenninewest Bible says leave what is Caesar's unto Caesar's. It's not the governments job to fulfill Christian values. It's our job.

You are welcome Steven!

Thank you for watching! I really love America's history through the eyes of our veterans of the past. I have learned so much while researching these heroes.