now we're just about 30 minutes into the burning of a 24-hour fire it's to honor veterans it's happening right now at The Shrine part of organization's 36th watchfire ceremony set for the Friday before Memorial Day each year our Fox 55 Drew fry is live for us from that Shri he's got more about the importance of those Flames yeah I'm here at the veterans National Memorial shrina Museum where we're here for that watch fire heading into Memorial Day weekend this is an annual event meant to honor veterans throughout Northeast Indiana and give families of veterans the opportunity to honor their family members once more so I'm going to take a step aside from the out of the way here so that you can get a better look into the watch fire which has just started as you mentioned about 30 minutes ago and you can see there's still people who are putting their logs on the fire as we get through I'll try and get you a closer look of that fire burning now and for the next 24 hours that watch fire not expected to W up until about 6:00 p.m. which means that someone will be here at the veterans National Memorial shr Museum for the next 24 hours straight tending this fire adding logs as needed and you can see there's more and more people who are coming through and adding a log to the fire themselves as a way to honor a family member and this is something we've talked with veteran leaders about the significance of and just the impact of being able to share this moment not only for the family members who veterans who have passed but for the family members who are still here and remembering those who are no longer with us because the sacrifices aren't just the veterans those family members that were left behind they sacrifice that veteran it is someone that will not be in their family again they can't replace that better yeah as he mentioned it's someone who can't be replaced but from what I've been told from Roy ver he's basically said that this is a way to allow people to once again honor their family members and kind of open up and bring their memory back to life one more time before setting back down and allowing them to kind of close that chapter of their life but he says the importance here is to make sure that they are never forgotten so as we come out to this live look once more you can see another person has stepped up to add a handful of logs to the fire and sharing the stories of the people who whether or not they died in combat who died after serving the country of the United States of America so this watch fire will continue to run on for the next several hours as I mentioned throughout the entire day Friday until Saturday at 6: p.m. and someone will be here the community is invited to take part and even if you don't have a loved one to add a log to the fire four you can just come up and sit along that fire and reflect so this will continue to run until as I mentioned 6:00 p.m. on Saturday and you will be back here at 10 p.m. to provide you another update live in Fort Wayne I'm Drew fry with Fox 55 news