The mission of Run To Honor is to preserve and perpetuate the legacy of Naval Academy Alumni lost in service to our Nation during combat or military operations.

Run To Honor does this by connecting Gold Star Families, classmates and friends; memorializing our fallen brothers and sisters in Virtual Memorial Hall; and organizing memorial and athletic events.

2025 Events & Activities

In 2025, we are focusing our efforts on the following events & activities:

  1. Supporting the Alumni Association’s Honor Our Fallen Heroes event by assisting with planning, identification and outreach to Gold Star Families, and execution of various events over a weekend in the Fall.

  2. Identification of “lost” families of our fallen shipmates. The Naval Academy community owes so much to these families, but we do not have contact information for all of them.

  3. Expansion of our “Event in a Box” initiative to encourage alumni chapters, class organizations, and individuals to organize and host their own events around Memorial Day.

  4. Memorial Day reading of names: though Memorial Hall is currently closed for renovations, we will continue our annual reading of the names, ranks, and services of the 2,567 Naval Academy alumni whose services and sacrifices we honor.

We are eager for volunteers for any and all of these efforts! Several — particularly research on “lost” families — can be done with however much or little time you have.

Online, Run To Honor created and maintains the USNA Virtual Memorial Hall project, a website with over 4 million words and 6,400 photos that aims to make good our promise to never forget.

Joining Run To Honor is as simple as emailing us or following our Facebook group. Please sign up for our newsletter, too!

Memorial Day 2024

Run To Honor organized or helped to promote fifteen meet-ups across the country where several hundred people paused to remember and honor the service and supreme sacrifice of our alumni.

Please join us in 2025!