I created this website and the first page placed on it as I wanted to be a witness to the life of Donnie Davidson as I knew him. If you desire to be a witness to the life of a Veteran you knew, sign up for a free account and place your images in stories and words to honor your special Veteran. Faded Footsteps is just a simple and free tool provided for you to be helpful in preserving the memory of your Veteran and to be a help in your genealogy searches. You can claim a Veteran as a family member or friend with your Google+ account. This identifies you with the Veteran and also helps with genealogy as you connect as a family member of the Veteran you connect to.

Please take the time to watch this short video on how to say "Thank you to a Veteran."

I have tens of thousands of images and GPS locations from all over Michigan and the country that I have taken over the past four years. If you would like help in the search for a Veteran, let me know your needs by contacting me either by phone (below) or via this website "Contact Us" link and I will help you all I can in your search for your ancestor. I am a member of the "Sons of the Union Veterans" and "The Sons of the Revolution" and will help you by using my connections and resources to find answers to your questions and searches. It is very likely that you have a Civil war Veteran as an ancestor. Please consider the impact and pride in finding a Civil War Soldier in your family. The Ancestry link to the left offers a free 14 day subscription and that should be all the time you need to find information on your Veteran.Clark Days of Muir, Michigan and a Civil War Veteran, lived for over 44 years with a bullet in one of his lungs. Everything is free to use on this website. We are however, very protective of the content on the website. If you want to register to use the site and be accepted, Please send an email using the "Contact Us" form to explain your motivation toward using the site. We were receiving a lot of spambot activity and turned off the registration function for now but welcome your help in building the information that is so important to honoring and preserving the lives and memories of our Veterans.

There is an APP for your IPhone, Android or Blackberry that is free and you can create a page for your Veteran from almost anywhere.Faded Footsteps is here to honor American Veterans from all wars and conflicts who served and made our country the great country it is. The home page will offer random image pages and you can do a search for last names and locations. Please visit our friends at: USA Welcome Home Troops I built Faded Footsteps in 2007 because a USMC friend of the family was killed on his way to Vietnam in 1965. Donnie Davidson was 19, and 7 years older than I when his plane crashed into a mountain side at take-off near El Toro Air Base in California. The crash is well documented but Donnie's name is not among the roster of those who died in the crash. I thought this was wrong and my memories of Donnie and his family were important to the extent that I wanted him to be remembered. This is why the site is here. The Dog Tags are for sale at $10. They cost me $4.60 at every sale due to included taxes and shipping. $5.40 will go to Veteran related charities for every Dog Tag Sold. Buy a Faded Footsteps Dog Tag and wear it proudly knowing that proceeds will go to our Veterans. We will update our charities as sales are accumulated. For now, the sale is just beginning. If you desire a custom tag with the name of your soldier on it, send an email when you order and we will do this at no charge beyond the $10 tag price for now.So please purchase a Dog Tag, be patient and understand that we have invested thousands of dollars and thousands of hours of our personal money and time into this website. Buying selected Amazon books and DVD's will help support the website and allow us to give to Veteran related charities. You can add your own veteran at no charge and to see the capabilities of the site, visit/search for Bernard Teelander's page to hear an audio file of him telling a joke. It is a treasure to me as this Veteran was my Father and I get to hear his voice whenever I want to. My Dad's friends and family come to his page often. You can do the same for your Veteran if you would like.The goal is to remember every veteran who served, with one page dedicated to each Veteran and include spouses where possible as they too made a great sacrifice in supporting their beloved Veteran.You can use the Genealogy component to track your family history and the Gecache to treasure hunt and learn about our great Veterans. I was never told about the 5 Civil War Great, Great Grandfathers I have in my family. I was never told about the Great-Grandmother who lost her husband and a month later, her 18 year old son to the civil war and in big part due to these losses, she lost the family farm and was buried in an unmarked grave in Kalamazoo, Michigan. I was never told about the Uncles who walked into the concentration camps at the end of WW2 or another Uncle who went down in a submarine in WW2. We need to know our ancestry and that is why we have the geneology component.We have special Dog-Tags located at select Geocache locations and you may use the Geocache rule of taking something, leaving something and making a note in the log books. The locations will be near Medal of Honor, Silver and Bronze Star, and Purple Heart recipients. I will try to keep a Dog Tag near my Father's grave at Fort Custer.Our hope is that you will enjoy the Geocache component and learn to appreciate our Veterans as you proudly wear these beautiful, rare and custom produced FadedFootsteps.com Dog Tags.Please feel free to place more Geocache locations and use our system to help others to explore and honor our Veterans and our history.In placing a lot of the pages so far, I have learned so very much and have come to appreciate these brave soldiers who fought and died defending our freedom. Our Veterans need to be thanked every day and remembering them on this website is our way of saying "Thank You, and I love you for all you sacrificed for me". With this website, you will always be remembered. I need your help to preserve the memory of every veteran who ever served our country by publishing a page in their honor. As this website is dedicated to the memory of our American Veterans. In no way will we allow the integrity of the honoring of those who served to be compromised by spam or inappropriate content and users. If you want to register to use the site and be accepted, Please register and then send an email using the "Contact Us" form to explain your motivation toward using the site. We reject all registration attempts that do not contact us when registering. Feel free to call me at my personal cell phone - 616-634-3296. Alan Teelander