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.
2026 Events & Activities
For a full and updated list of events, please visit the Run To Honor page at https://myusna.com/topics/9174/events
More broadly, in 2026, we are focusing our efforts on the following activities:
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 on the 6th and 7th of November. Visit the link to pre-register!
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.
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.
Memorial Day reading of names: We will continue our annual reading of the names, ranks, and services of the 2,566 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.
Run To Honor created and maintains the USNA Virtual Memorial Hall project, a website with over 4 million words and 6,500 photos that aims to make good our promise to never forget.
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