Bringing "In Honor" to Military City USA: Veterans, Loss & The Day of the Dead in San Antonio

I did a podcast for Psych Armor just before we did the Memorial Day show last year ago, May.

And I said that for me, Memorial Day in particular, I really don't like the fact that It's about barbecues and sales, you know.

And I really don't like it when people say Happy Memorial Day.

Some of my closest friends say Happy Memorial Day.

And I just want to say that's not what it's about.

The other thing is that it isn't just about those who die on the battlefield.

And this is my dad died because of the battlefield.

15 years later, but he died because of the battlefield.

And I think we...

We don't honor all of our veterans for all the things they do, whether they're alive or not.

And it just was really important to me to honor those people and the families and the caregivers.

So it evolved after Memorial Day.

We got an opportunity to do it on Cape Cod, LA to Cape Cod.

And that was really, that one really kind of solidified the run of show, if you will.

And if that one, we included having a color guard and we had an MC who was a state representative who had lost his son in battle.

Lo and behold, there was another representative who also lost his son.

in battle and the interesting things was they were both from the two different political parties and during that time they were of one party.

They literally had reached across the aisle based on their shared grief and the shared loss.

So it was really, I thought, a very, for all of us involved, we were just really moved by the love and acceptance and forgiveness and trust that came out of that one session, even though they were on opposing sides of the aisle.

And they, because they had come together on a very important topic.

So we had Color Guard, we had a youth, a youth, an ROTC band that was there.

So included the youth, but one of the most, the biggest thing for me and, and Danny Davis, our, our director, but also more than that, she's really the creator behind in honor.

She in, in, um, Los Angeles, she had created this idea around the ribbons.

We had brainstormed before.

I won't go into all the details.

I did a podcast for Psych Armor just before we did the Memorial Day show last year ago, May.

And I said that for me, Memorial Day in particular, I really don't like the fact that It's about barbecues and sales, you know.

And I really don't like it when people say Happy Memorial Day.

Some of my closest friends say Happy Memorial Day.

And I just want to say that's not what it's about.

The other thing is that it isn't just about those who die on the battlefield.

And this is my dad died because of the battlefield.

15 years later, but he died because of the battlefield.

And I think we...

We don't honor all of our veterans for all the things they do, whether they're alive or not.

And it just was really important to me to honor those people and the families and the caregivers.

So it evolved after Memorial Day.

We got an opportunity to do it on Cape Cod, LA to Cape Cod.

And that was really, that one really kind of solidified the run of show, if you will.

And if that one, we included having a color guard and we had an MC who was a state representative who had lost his son in battle.

Lo and behold, there was another representative who also lost his son.

in battle and the interesting things was they were both from the two different political parties and during that time they were of one party.

They literally had reached across the aisle based on their shared grief and the shared loss.

So it was really, I thought, a very, for all of us involved, we were just really moved by the love and acceptance and forgiveness and trust that came out of that one session, even though they were on opposing sides of the aisle.

And they, because they had come together on a very important topic.

So we had Color Guard, we had a youth, a youth, an ROTC band that was there.

So included the youth, but one of the most, the biggest thing for me and, and Danny Davis, our, our director, but also more than that, she's really the creator behind in honor.

She in, in, um, Los Angeles, she had created this idea around the ribbons.

We had brainstormed before.

I won't go into all the details.