
Welcome to The Tree of Valor
Where America heals from telling her story.
Welcome to The Tree of Valor
Where America heals from telling her story.
Where America heals from telling her story.
Where America heals from telling her story.
GALLERY INFO
Located in Alamance Crossing
3173 Waltham Blvd
Burlington NC 27215
717-515-7418
100 Trees & Thousands of Stories at Camp Tillman.
Open year round, free admission.
Tues, Thurs, Fri, 2-8 pm
Sat 12-6
Meet a Red Cross Salute to Heroes
Civilian Hero of 2022
Your support and contributions will enable us to honor and remember veterans and families of the fallen across the country. We charge nothing to deploy our tribute. We call this “God’s project." Every single deployment, he blesses our mission with a sponsor to help get us from point A to point B. Those who donate are part of his plan and our gratefulness can never compare to his.
The Tree of Valor is a 501(c)3 organization. Before becoming a nonprofit, the project was funded by the generosities of great Americans with donations of photos, trees, supplies, volunteers, and plenty of places in NC for veterans and their families to come visit the troops and trees. We love joining forces with other VSO’s and nonprofits in sharing their mission. We now travel the country going wherever God sends us.
That’s where you will find our troops and trees, sea to shining sea. Started the Christmas of 2019, our first tribute of a dozen troop covered trees made their debut in Greensboro, NC. By the end of 2024, we will have shared this tribute at almost 150 places in three years, in counties across NC and 8 states!!
In 2023, The Rewritten Story Foundation donated a 16' trailer to us. That gift completely changed the trajectory of our mission and our deployments. We are so grateful to them! Our goal is to reach every county in NC and every state in the nation! Here is our growing list of states and when we first deployed there:
TENATIVE* & most requested DEPLOYMENTS
1. Where do you get the photos?
A) Photos are submitted to us by anyone wanting to honor or remember a comrade, relative, or friend who protected our nation in some way. We honor the living and those who have passed on.
B) We make trees specifically for organizations such as DAV, VFW, and the American Legion.
C) We are also asked to research photos for specific events such as the POWs and MIAs from specific states or counties so that they can be recognized, remembered, and honored.
D) Military reunions are our newest and most favorite events to attend. The tributes we bring are very personal to that individual group and are so appreciated.
2. What is the reason for the different colored trees?
We have over a dozen different colors each telling a different kind of story. To name a few:
Green: active military, veterans, and military families.
White: fallen active military or suicide.
Gold: families of the fallen
Silver: the Twin Towers or law enforcement
Red or navy : first responders and law enforcement
Purple: Purple Heart recipients.
3. Why did you start this?
When our son became a Marine, we started collecting photos of family and friends who were in the military as a way to show our son the story he was a part of. We wanted him to know how much we appreciated his service to his country. We made the photos into wooden mementos not knowing that God was planning a story of his very own from that very first tree.
That first tree we named Tree of Valor. One tree meant to honor one son grew into a forest to honor a nation.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero-
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The Tree of Valor is a traveling pictorial tribute honoring our nation’s protectors of the past and present.
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