Honoring Legends, Preserving Memories

A Virtual Tribute to Our Heroes

Our Journey

Dedicated to Remembering Veterans and Their Legacies

We aim to create a global platform that connects individuals with the memorials of those who served.

Veterans Memorial Project is dedicated to creating the world’s largest and most accessible virtual tour of military memorials. Through community engagement and innovative technology, we strive to honor veterans and preserve their legacies, ensuring the important stories of our heroes endure for generations. Our platform connects families and communities while empowering individuals to explore, share, and remember those who served.

We provide a unique online resource linking veterans’ names to their memorials, fostering personal connections and ensuring their stories are never forgotten.

Our Commitment to Honor Veterans

To create a global virtual memorial database, preserving the legacies of veterans for future generations.

Our Journey to Commemorate Veterans

Founded with the mission of accessibility and remembrance, the Veterans Memorial Project began as a grassroots initiative fueled by passionate veterans and community volunteers. Recognizing the need for a centralized platform to document military memorials, we unite technology and personal storytelling to create meaningful connections with our heroes. Over the years, we have expanded our reach and continued to engage families, students, and veterans as contributors to our mission.

Since our inception, we’ve dedicated ourselves to documenting memorials worldwide, driven by community collaboration and a love for our veterans.

Inspiring Future Generations

To be the world’s foremost resource for honoring veterans, facilitating connections, and preserving their legacies for future generations to cherish.

What Sets Us Apart

Connecting Families and Memorials

Our unique value proposition lies in our comprehensive database that connects individuals to specific memorials, enhancing personal remembrance. We offer an engaging platform for families to share stories, facilitating emotional connections and ensuring that veterans’ sacrifices are recognized and celebrated.

Our Story

A Promise to Remember

The Veteran Memorial Project was born not in a boardroom, but from a lifetime of service and a family history marked by sacrifice.
For our founder, Dan Kost, the military wasn’t just a career path; it was a family tradition. Nearly every adult man in his family served, a lineage of duty that Dan continued as an Army veteran. But as he looked back on his family’s history, he realized that for every service member who came home, there were stories of those who didn’t—and the quiet pain of the families left behind.
The inspiration for this project comes from three distinct tragedies that shaped Dan’s understanding of remembrance.

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The Echo of World War II First, there was the story of his uncle, Andrew Kost, a man Dan never got the chance to meet. He died serving in World War II long before Dan was born. Growing up, this uncle wasn’t a physical presence, but a memory held alive by stories—a hero frozen in time, whose absence was felt at every family gathering.
The Long Shadow of Vietnam Then came the loss of his cousin. He survived the jungles of Vietnam, but the war didn’t end when he came home. He eventually succumbed to the injuries and wounds he sustained in service. As the years passed and the older generation of the family faded away, a new tragedy emerged: the location of his final resting place was lost to time. Today, it takes immense effort just to find out where he is buried. That experience planted a seed in Dan’s mind: No family should ever struggle to find their hero.
The Spark: Beirut, 1983The turning point came with the loss of his cousin, John Weyl. A proud U.S. Marine, John was killed in the Beirut barracks bombing in 1983. It was a devastating blow to the family. Months before she passed away, John’s mother (Dan’s aunt) made a pilgrimage to the Beirut Memorial in North Carolina.
Dan hadn’t even known the memorial existed until she made that trip. When she returned, she spoke of the peace she found in finally seeing his name carved in stone. But she also highlighted a difficult truth: for many families, these memorials are hundreds or thousands of miles away, often impossible to visit.

Our Mission

Our Mission That realization birthed the Veteran Memorial Project. We believe that distance should never separate a family from their loved ones’ legacy.
We are dedicated to creating the world’s largest directory of virtual military memorial tours. Our goal is simple: to ensure that whether you are a mother in Colorado or a grandson in Florida, you can stand virtually before the names of those who served. We are building this for the families who need to visit now, for the historians of the future, and for the simple belief that while we may lose our soldiers, we must never lose their stories.

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