"Something struck me about the fact that the markers were in terrible condition, and it made me really angry that no one was able to care for them," Andrew Lumish tells PEOPLE Susan Young is a ...

Long after most people leave work and head home, Andrew Lumish often spends his evenings walking quietly through old Florida cemeteries carrying soft brushes, buckets of water and specialised cleaning ...

TAMPA, Fla. – On any given day, Andrew Lumish arrives at a historic Tampa-area cemetery without fanfare or attention. He’s there to carefully restore veteran’s gravestones blackened by the elements ...

A Florida man has made it his mission to clean the decades of grime off tombstones of military veterans. He makes the headstones look better, but... Scrubbing Veterans' Headstones Clean, Uncovering ...

A Florida man has started honoring deceased veterans in a unique way: by scrubbing clean their cemetery headstones. Andrew Lumish has cleaned about 600 veterans' headstones to date, according to NPR.

PLANT CITY, Fla. — Norman Root made the long drive to Murphysboro, Tennessee, from his home in Michigan two years ago. He was bounded for Stones River National Cemetery to hear a man from Florida ...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Andrew Lumish spends his scant spare time visiting cemeteries. He arrives on Sundays, sleeves rolled up and supplies in hand. He goes to work, spending hours meticulously ...

Andrew Lumish of Land O’ Lakes, Florida, spends most of his waking hours scrubbing down the tarnished and moss-covered tombstones in historic cemeteries around Tampa, exposing the essential ...

A towering oak tree draped with Spanish moss offers little relief from the Florida sun as Andrew Lumish scrubs grime from the headstone of a World War I veteran. "It's pretty messy, pretty dirty," he ...

Two years ago, a man from Michigan made the long drive from his home to Murphysboro, Tenn., bound for Stones River National Cemetery to hear a man from Florida speak. According to a report by WTSP 10, ...