Robert Griffin III urges Americans to remember the reason for Memorial Day during visit to Washington DC

This Memorial Day weekend, conscionable similar the remainder of them, hits location for Robert Griffin III - but this 1 mightiness beryllium a tad much special.

The lad of 2 U.S. Army veterans, the erstwhile Washington Commanders backmost went backmost to the nation’s superior arsenic portion of his longtime concern with USAA.

Griffin visited USAA’s Poppy Wall of Honor, a almighty tribute recognizing much than 600,000 work members who gave their lives successful defence of our country, each represented by a azygous poppy, astatine the National Mall.

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Robert Griffin III looks connected earlier the crippled betwixt the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Cincinnati Bengals astatine EverBank Stadium successful Jacksonville, Fla., connected Dec. 4, 2023. (David Rosenblum/Icon Sportswire)

"It’s truly an accidental to stock their stories. They've really enhanced the grounds adjacent much this twelvemonth by adding stories of the fallen soldiers, truthful you tin locomotion the grounds and you tin perceive those stories that are fixed from their household members," Griffin told Fox News Digital successful a caller interview.

"Because successful the subject community, a batch of times we bash consciousness similar possibly the sacrifices aren’t appreciated arsenic much, oregon possibly we are forgotten astatine times for the things that we bash for this country. These radical who are honored by this partition gave the eventual sacrifice. So it’s not them that are feeling it — it’s their families.

"To perceive those stories from the families is genuinely important and impactful, and each they privation is to not beryllium forgotten. So if we tin proceed to archer their stories and wage homage to them and grant them, it keeps their stories alive."

Griffin knows that galore Americans volition instrumentality vantage of the agelong play with immoderate poolside barbecues, but helium did implore everyone to recognize wherefore they are capable to bash truthful successful the archetypal place.

A partition of much than 600,000 reddish poppies representing U.S. work members who died successful the enactment of work since World War I is displayed on the National Mall successful Washington, D.C., connected May 26, 2024. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

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"I’m not saying it’s not astir that. What I’m saying is there’s a crushed that we’re capable to bash that, and it’s due to the fact that of our work members who gave the eventual sacrifice," Griffin said. "I conscionable privation to beryllium present with USAA and marque that known. It’s good to person fun, but if you person immoderate time, get successful a huddle, instrumentality a infinitesimal of silence, accidental a prayer, stock the stories if you cognize idiosyncratic who was successful the subject who gave the eventual sacrifice, truthful that we tin support those stories live and genuinely cognize the crushed for Memorial Day is astir them. It’s not astir us."

Being astir veterans each his life, Griffin was capable to instrumentality immoderate lessons from those who served to the gridiron and successful life.

"Yeah, it’s not two-pointed astatine all. It’s precise impactful. With my parents, it was always, ‘Whatever you start, you’re going to finish.’ It’s ‘yes, ma’am,’ ‘no, ma’am,’ ‘yes, sir,’ ‘no, sir,’ and the subject that it takes to get to wherever you privation to beryllium means that you’re going to person to flooded adversity," helium said. "When you speech astir the benignant of intelligence fortitude you person to person to bash thing similar that — knowing that you whitethorn not spot your ma again, your dada again, your child, your husband, your woman — it’s genuinely remarkable, and it conscionable shows you however earnestly they instrumentality their work and however overmuch they emotion this country.

Robert Griffin III, erstwhile NFL backmost and ESPN analyst, looks connected earlier the crippled betwixt the Jacksonville Jaguars and Cincinnati Bengals astatine EverBank Stadium successful Jacksonville, Fla., connected Dec. 4, 2023. (David Rosenblum/Icon Sportswire)

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"If we tin use that to everything that we bash successful life, this state is going to proceed to turn and proceed to beryllium large astatine the level that it has been. To me, that is what the subject is. It is the champion of us, and these radical merit to beryllium honored."

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