The First Step was to learn the Rules.  The Director of the cemetery handed over a copy of the VA instruction for donating a monument.  There were size and cost restrictions, no names or weapons could be included, permissions to obtain, accounting of funds, the monument would have to be maintained by the group for 50 years, and so on.  After a visit to a grave monument company for what materials and production might be, the stage was set.  It appeared daunting.  We proposed the idea to the DET 419 group for support of such an endeavor.  Det 419 members were enthusiastic.  That sparked the dream, transforming it into a Project.