Courtesy Photo | Richard Gilleland Jr., from Stafford, Va., works on his website, www.preseveandhonor.com.... read more read more
FORT BRAGG, N.C. - A young man recently spent his summer vacation among America’s most honored.
Richard Gilleland Jr., a 16 year old young man from Stafford, Va., devoted much of his summer vacation from high school documenting, photographing and researching service members of the U.S. Military who have fallen during the War on Terror and are buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
The website, www.preserveandhonor.com is the product of this young man’s extraordinary work, most of it in Section 60 of Arlington Cemetery.
Richard Jr., the son of Sfc. Richard Gilleland of the 42nd Military Police Detachment, 503rd Military Police Battalion (Airborne), 16th Military Police Brigade, designed the website so a visitor can search for a fallen Service member from the terror attacks of September 11th, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
A search of the website brings up the service member’s name, their obituary and a photo of the gravestone at Arlington National Cemetery.
“I really wanted to give people a way to view their loved one’s information. To give the family members a place they can go to see a picture of the gravestone, they can see all the information,” says Gilleland about the purpose of such an in-depth effort.
Gilleland learned how to create web pages in a high school class last year. He enhanced the site as he went along with various features, techniques and editing tools taught to him by instructors and self-learned.
The effort took him about three months to finish, Gilleland says. He updates the site once every two or three weeks and plans to maintain the website as long as Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation New Dawn continue.
“Some people don’t live close to Arlington - they probably just went to the funeral, they haven’t been able the see the head stone, says Gilleland about features his site has. “Here they can see a picture, update information, post a picture, leave comments.”
Gilleland hopes that in the future, and with the help of volunteers, to include service members buried at Arlington who fought in military conflicts before the War on Terror and military burials conducted throughout the nation.
| Date Taken: | 11.18.2010 |
| Date Posted: | 12.01.2010 05:55 |
| Story ID: | 61149 |
| Location: | FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA, US |
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