TAMPA, Florida. – Janice Chance calls events like these “A holy hug from heaven.”

“Bringing people out, honoring and greeting our loved ones means so much to me,” she said.

On Tuesday morning, Chance stood alongside a dozen other members of the Gold Star family as the “flag of honor escorts” stopped at the Franklin Middle Magnet School in Tampa, led by the veteran of the Air Force David McElroy.

“Our mission is to have a tour that visits each of the Gold Star family memorials that are installed by the Woody Williams Foundation,” McElroy said.

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Across the country, there are 91 – the Florida Landmarks Tour began in Pensacola on April 2. Along the ride are life-size American flags, which have stopped at every monument so far – and read the names of those who have fallen.

“These names, they all have families — they have brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers,” McElroy said. “Children, cousins, aunts, uncles.”

Chance, whose son Jesse Melton III died in Afghanistan in 2008, said events like these prevent every Gold Star family’s worst fear: their loved one is forgotten.

“When you have men and women coming out and saying we’re going to remember, we’re going to say their names — because as long as you say their names, they’re still alive,” Chance said.

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And their memory, she believes, will never die. After the event, Chance said that on the day his son died, he was filling another Marine’s shift that morning — that Marine two days later became a father to a baby girl at home. House.