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Summer's in the air
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But I want to pause and take a moment to reflect on what today, Memorial Day, is about. It's about honoring; honoring the men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice for US. It's about respecting; respecting their bravery and devotion to something much larger than themselves. #MemorialDay #RememberTheFallen
Apologies for not posting sooner. Remembering the day that changes the course of History as well as the World War, the D-Day landings, lest we forget those brave young warriors who fought side by side and sacrificed everything in protection of their loves on the Battlefield and back home. Lest we forget. Always be grateful for the things around you such as you're family and friends, cherish life to the fullest just the way these brave lads wanted you to. They fought for our freedom and now it's time we remember their sacrifices, we will forever be grateful.
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"Here we are about 4.5 hours in and need to add some more @rockwoodcharcoal as the temps were dropping. About 90 minutes to go for my @circlebranchpork Berkshire hog that lived free range in an oak forest most of her life gorging on acorns. You read that right. We will be foiling the whole hog now that we have the color we want. Also, this pig has been named Gloria #LetsGoBlues⠀
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Where the past and present meet.
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This week, thousands visited The Wall to pay their respects as the nation commemorated #MemorialDay. .
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Pictured first and second: Bill Stewart, the son of U.S. Air Force COL. Peter J. Stewart, weeps as he see his dad's name on The Wall. His father was listed as missing and unaccounted for from the Vietnam War. His remains were repatriated in 2018 & his status was changed from MIA to confirmed dead. (: Prayoon PC)
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Pictured third: Ann Mills-Griffiths, the sister of U.S. Navy LCDR James B. Mills, looks at his name on The Wall. He went missing in 1966 and in 2018 his remains were repatriated. His status was changed this year from MIA to confirmed dead. She is Chairman of the Board of the National League of POW/MIA Families.
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Pictured fourth through tenth: Personal moments between the living and the dead, together once again. And the hundreds of tributes and remembrances left in honor of our fallen and missing service members. See all the photos from the week at: vvmf.org/event-photos .
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“If anything should happen to me, please don’t let me die to Sharon and Becky. Be Good, Steve.”
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U.S. Air Force Captain Stephen A. Rusch wrote these words in his last letter home before his plane was shot down over Laos in 1972.
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Rebecca was three years old when her father went missing. Her older sister, Sharon, was three days away from her sixth birthday. She is shown here in a photo with her father when she was no older than six months old. “The uncertainty was always there,” Sharon remembered. Growing up meant there were a lot of unanswered questions. There were nights of many tears, living life with “a fading hope and an aching heart that never healed.”
“We suffered silently, privately alone,” Rebecca Rusch would later add, admitting that they never talked about their father’s loss. They instead lived alongside grief. There was an emptiness they were unable to fill until they both endured on their personal path toward healing before and after their father's remains were identified and repatriated in 2007.
Everyone’s journey and path to healing is different. For Sharon, it has included 27 years of service in the U.S. Air Force. For Rebecca, it was biking 1,200 miles across the Ho Chi Minh Trail to find the crash site of their father. And for thousands of others, the journey brings them back to The Wall – where they come to face loss – where they come to meet people like Sharon and Rebecca. Today they volunteer at The Wall and aid in the healing process of so many.
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“We are all connected by the names on The Wall. Those people have brought us all together as a way to mourn, and hug and celebrate and make new friendships and relationships. I feel a...memorial isn’t always about the person who is gone, it’s about the people who are still here," Rebecca said.
Stephen's name is remembered on Panel 2W, Line 113 on The Wall.
Whenever they volunteer at The Wall, they can live out their father's two words: "Be Good." Their stories were shared at the Memorial Day Observance at The Wall.
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