[TRENDING: County prepares for vaccine | Remote learning continues in spring | ‘We’re failing:’ Mayors call for COVID-19 action]“You could barely tell anything was there.
It was overgrown. But I saw two white things,” Cheek remembers.Cheek said he used his bare hands to pull back vines and downed tree branches.
That’s when he discovered what he was looking at were the headstones of two military men buried side by side.“Now I’m angry,” Cheek remembers.Cheek turned that anger into change.
He returned with friends, family and volunteers to clean and restore the forgotten and neglected cemetery. The experience motivated him to team up with friend, Bruce Rothschild, and form Veteran Cemetery Restorations Inc.“I’m just the founder, he’s the PR.