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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.

He's nbc's 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. >> it's not just one day a year we think about them or honor them, we think about them all the time. >> reporter: one of the name...

And this is your mom. >> yes. >> reporter: right. and back here some of sergeant smith's 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 him and we'll carry out his legacy. >> reporter: on this memorial day, would you have been anywher...

newsroom" begins right now. all right. straight ahead we're going to talk about the cnn debate, the tea party republican debate. we'll 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. you're looking live now at the kennedy center in washington, d.c. this is going to be a concert for hope in washington and as soon as this gets under way when the president makes his remarks we're going to bring that...