Program Partners
The American Battle Monuments Commission
The American Battle Monuments Commission administers, operates and maintains 26 permanent American burial grounds and 32 separate memorials, monuments and markers, on foreign soil. It also maintains four memorials in the United States. Today there are 124,000 American war dead interred in these cemeteries, of which 30,973 are from World War I commemorative cemeteries, 92,958 from World War II commemorative cemeteries, and 750 from the Mexican-American War. Additionally, more than 15,000 American veterans and others are interred in the Mexico City National Cemetery, Corozal American Cemetery and Clark Veterans Cemetery. More than 94,000 American servicemen and women who were missing in action, lost, or buried at sea during World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War are commemorated by name on stone tablets in ABMC cemeteries and memorials.
The Community College of Aurora
The Community College of Aurora serves our diverse community by providing high-quality instruction and support services to prepare students for transfer and employment. At CCA, students engage as leaders, self-advocates, and change agents. We encourage you to join our community and get involved.
History Colorado
The Military History Team at History Colorado is dedicated to preserving and sharing stories of service and sacrifice in the History Colorado Collection. Through programming, exhibits, and community connections, we ensure that this important history can be told for generations to come.
Visit Aurora
Visit Aurora is the Official Destination Marketing Organization for the City of Aurora and acts as the primary liaison between meeting planners and hotel partners. As Aurora’s convention and visitor’s bureau, Visit Aurora’s mission is grounded in showcasing Aurora as a premier destination for meetings, business, and leisure travel. Visit Aurora represents more than 65 hotel properties with 13,000+ guestrooms, and more than 1 million square feet of meeting space, including Colorado’s largest and newest resort, Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center.
Galloway & Company, Inc.
Galloway & Company, Inc. has been providing architecture and engineering services to communities throughout Colorado and across the nation since 1982. Galloway’s Full Spectrum Approach to design and comprehensive suite of in-house disciplines equip its designers with a multidisciplinary mindset that keeps them mindful of the bigger picture, no matter their role. This knowledge results in more purposeful projects that best align with the client’s vision. Galloway is honored to support the CFM visitor center and help bring this very meaningful project to fruition.
Stories Behind The Stars
Stories Behind the Stars is a nonprofit initiative with the ambitious mission of finding and training volunteers to write the stories of all 421,000 US military personnel who died in World War II. These stories are saved to a common database and can be read for free via smartphone app at any gravesite or memorial anywhere in the world. Hundreds of volunteers from all 50 states and more than a dozen other countries have participated in this project and have completed 45,000 stories. There is no cost to volunteers, and writing these stories is very rewarding.
