A Maine native has come up with a project to honor fallen veterans who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. Â While the project is still evolving, he hopes to gather support for it. Â Â He calls it “The Summit Project,” and his plan, to get a group to hike up Mt. Katahdin next Memorial Day with stones given to him by families of fallen Maine soldiers.
“I think that this idea of hiking a stone which represents the fallen is kind of a metaphor of bearing a cross. Making a small sacrifice because they made the ultimate sacrifice,” said Maj. David Cote, “The Summit Project” creator. Â Cote thought of the idea on Memorial Day when his Navy Seal friends honored their fallen comrades by leaving stones on top of a mountain in California. Â While the active duty Marine Corps officer now lives in Arlington, he wants to honor those from a place he calls home.
We spoke to him via Skype. Â Â Â more…