On Sunday September 18, 2017, under the leadership of Marine veteran, MYHA Board Member, head coach John Chase, four MYHA players and their families, joined a national effort to place U.S. Flags on veterans’ graves.

John and his players from Peewee AA Gold Brady Blackburn, Jacob Heron, Graham LeBlanc, and Chase Tovornik accompanied eleven-year-old Preston Sharp, who was recently featured on a CBS Evening News story, placing flags on graves at the VA’s Quantico National Cemetery.  


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQn_MR5ZCKc

Alongside 100 other volunteers from different organizations, Department of Veterans Affairs, Missing in America Project, The American Legion Riders, Team Red White and Blue, and Boy Scouts of America, to name a few, the MYHA players and coaches spent their Sunday morning honoring close to 1,000 veterans, most of whom were unclaimed by any family member before burial.



Preston Sharp, who was originally inspired to recognize veterans after he visited his grandfather’s grave in his hometown of Redding, California and was upset that his grandfather’s grave did not have a flag, has now visited multiple states and has placed flags on more than 28,000 veteran graves.  

For more information on Preston and his cause you can visit http://www.flagsandflowers.org/or his Facebook page at https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100018848255765.