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Kevin Wills has painted more than 450 fallen soldiers since 2020 and his project is complete.

Kevin Wills completes his project of painting more than 450 UK soldiers who died in Afghanistan.

Hes nbcs kevin tibbles. >> reporter: one foot in front of the other on a march of remembrance. former army captain glen dare carries the names of fallen friends on his fully loaded pack. >> it makes you wonder why did i get to come back? so my purpose now is to try to carry their mission on. >> reporter: he walks with others for a veterans support group called carry the load which organizes marches nationwide to raise awareness of the true meaning of memorial day. >> its not just one day a year ...

And this is your mom. >> yes. >> reporter: right. and back here some of sergeant smiths buddies in the marine corps, in the same unit he was in. tell us, sir, who are you, give everybody your name. >> my name is casey. he was a fantastic marine. he was the kind of marine that everyone wanted to be like and he was a great leader. >> reporter: he was in your unisnun unit. >> it was our first deployment, he was a great person to take us in and horrible to lose him, but definitely learned a lot from...

newsroom" begins right now. all right. straight ahead were going to talk about the cnn debate, the tea party republican debate. well talk a little bit later about this this hour. but first we want to let you know that the president of the united states is expected to speak in just a few minutes on this, the tenth anniversary of the september 11th terrorist attacks. youre looking live now at the kennedy center in washington, d.c. this is going to be a concert for hope in washington ...

Straight out of high school. guardsmen and reservists, workers and business people, immigrants and fourth generation soldiers. they are men and women who left behind lives of comfort for two, three, four, five tours of duty, too many will never come home. those that do carry dark memories from distant places in the legacy of fallen friends. the sacrifices of these men and women, and of our military families, reminds us that the wages of war are great, that whole service to our nation is full of ...