It's nearly double the number of people who came out for the Travis Manion Foundation's first year of "The Honor Project" at the National Cemetery of the Alleghenies. For someone like Angelic Smith, those moments hit home.

Hundreds of volunteers gathered at Wood National Cemetery in Milwaukee to place flags on veterans' graves, continuing a decades-long Memorial Day tradition

We honor the veterans that are still with us, and we also honor the veterans that have passed away and fought in those campaigns," Dyer Carithers said.