Since 2003, a simple memorial for the country’s military fallen in Afghanistan and Iraq is set up in the Southern California city of Irvine by members of the community on the week before Memorial Day and then removed the week after Independence Day. For years the community and visitors from all over the country have come to share in the fellowship at the site of the Northwood Gratitude and Honor Memorial.
This expression of gratitude and honor, born from simple materials and community initiative, was approved on Dec. 8th, 2009 by the Irvine City Council to become a permanent monument to the heroes that gave their all to the United States of America.
Construction is now under way on the permanent memorial with the temporary memorial being erected for one last time adjacent to the permanent site. The names of every service member who has died in Afghanistan and Iraq have been displayed on the wooden posts of the temporary memorial. Their names will be engraved in granite in the permanent memorial, to assure that future generations of Americans will remember and honor them with gratitude as we do today.
Please join us in remembering these heroes. Your donation of $40 will pay the cost of a hero's name being engraved in a granite panel of the new memorial.