A mom honors her son's sacrifice by making bears out of fallen soldiers' uniforms

Richmond Hill, Georgia -- For Lisa Freeman, the healing begins with her hands.

"Just pray over the uniform while I am going"

She sits and sews in a tiny upstairs room in a grand house on the Georgia coast.

"Makes me stop and think about Matthew. He was only over there 9 days when he was killed"

He wrote:

"Mom, dad I can never re pay you for all you have done for me you made me in to the man I am today I hope that I have made you proud that has always been my goal. I love you both so much."

She seams together the memory of her son. Marine captain Matthew Freeman was killed in combat while serving in Afghanistan.

Freeman believes that her son would love what she's doing to honor soldiers' memory.

"He's loving that something good is happening out of something so tragic"

As Freeman sews she relates the story of one person who brought her a uniform.

"I can tell you as I'm doing this I am thinking about the young woman who brought me these. This was her brother Shannon Chihuahua's pants and when she first came to me she just wanted to talk about her brother and how much she missed him. And so for her this is just one more thing that she can say, that's your uncle Shannon's. That's my Shannon bear. Shannon Chihuahua. Thank you for your service"

The bears are lovingly made from the combat uniforms of the fallen.

The Shannon bear might be for specialist Shannon Chihuahua's nephews, but it's his sister Jessica who's clutching them.

"When my kids are grown, and older, even for me. It's something that we'll always have. And we'll always have his memories," she said.

For more information go to to http://www.freemanproject.org/