How to Clean Veteran Marble Grave Markers by Memorial Day

Learn how to clean a veteran marble grave marker using D/2 Biological Solution. Trae Zipperer demonstrates the proper way to honor a veteran with a clean headstone and grave flag by Memorial Day. While visiting New Hope Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in La Crosse, FL, Trae found the forgotten ground level marble grave marker for 20-year-old Private James I. Thomas who was a member of the 60th Infantry Regiment attached to the 9th Infantry Division during World War II. Along with the 9th Infantry Division, James Thomas landed at Utah Beach during the Invasion of Normandy on 10 Jun 1944, which was D-Day +4. He was Killed In Action two-months later on 6 Aug 1944 while fighting across France. Once a hometown war hero laid to rest with full military honors four-years after his battlefield sacrifice. His once sacred marble stone was found 9 Apr 2021 covered in black algae with encroaching sod covering his previously important death date.

What we’ve allowed to happen to our veteran headstones and grave markers is despicable. But, we can make this right, one grave marker at a time, by focusing on what’s really important.

Visit ByMemorialDay.com to watch how-to videos and find a link to the Fact Sheet Cleaning Government-Furnished Headstones/Markers issued by the National Cemetery Administration. Register at VeteranGraves.com where you can add Cemeteries, add veteran Graves, upload before and after photos, and document every detail of your veteran’s military service.

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