Watch CNN’s online story about Arlington National Cemetery’s Section 60 on Memorial Day, 2008.
The story
America’s most recent war dead lie in a quiet patch of ground at Arlington National Cemetery known as Section 60.
In that parcel are 485 men and women who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Most tourists keep to other paths at the cemetery, visiting the Tomb of the Unknowns or President John F. Kennedy’s gravesite. However, especially on Memorial Day weekend, relatives and friends pay their respects at the graves in Section 60.
Read the full article from CNN.com
Each day, we will randomly highlight one service member’s life, and include links and stories. We choose to never forget, and this is our way, before the run, to remember our fallen service members.
Army Staff Sgt. Lincoln Hollinsaid was working for a construction company when he decided to join the Army. The 1993 Princeton High School graduate joined the Army in 1995 and was sent to the Middle East as an engineer in January 2003. “His main concern was that the young soldiers under him were trained properly,” said his father, Dan Hollinsaid. “He wanted to take care of them.” He said his son loved two things: the military and the outdoors, where he fished, hunted and four-wheeled. Hollinsaid, 27, of Malden, Ill., and based at Fort Stewart, Ga., was killed April 7.
Information for this story was acquired from In Remembrance.
We will run for Lincoln on June 16, 2008 outside San Bernardino, California.
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Fallen Heroes Memorial
The band Applewagon is to play a benefit concert for Run for the Fallen on Memorial Day.
Applewagon, a five piece rock group, will play a benefit concert for Run for the Fallen at Billy Goode’s in Newport, Rhode Island. The show begins at 9pm on Memorial Day [May 26]. All proceeds will go towards the run, funding the placement of memorial markers along the 4000+ mile run.
Each day, we will randomly highlight one service member’s life, and include links and stories. We choose to never forget, and this is our way, before the run, to remember our fallen service members.
White Horse Fire Chief Richard Soltis Jr. remembered Eric R. Wilkus as a hard worker who joined the fire company as a junior member at age 16. “He was excited to follow in the footsteps of his father, who is a firefighter, and his aunt, who is involved in the emergency services, and his grandfather, who was also involved in the fire service,” Soltis said. Wilkus, 20, of Hamilton, N.J., died Dec. 25 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center of a non-combat related injury he sustained in Baghdad. He graduated high school in 2004 and was assigned to Schofield Barracks. Ryan Kingston remembered growing up with his friend _ playing the tenor saxophone together in the band, talking about girls and spinning doughnuts in parking lots while driving around in Wilkus’s black Chevy pickup truck. “He was dependable and so easy to get along with,” Kingston said. Wilkus’s fellow firefighters said he was always excited to hop on the fire truck and assist at fire scenes. “If you needed something done, he’d do it without question, and with a smile,” Fire Captain Joe Troyano said. He is survived by his parents, Walter and Sharon.
Information for this story was acquired from In Remembrance.
We will run for Eric on August 3, 2008 outside Charlotte, Tennessee.
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Faces of the Fallen
Each day, we will randomly highlight one service member’s life, and include links and stories. We choose to never forget, and this is our way, before the run, to remember our fallen service members.
Army Spc. Richard D. Naputi was killed when a makeshift bomb exploded near his Humvee during combat operations Taji. He was killed alongside 1st Lt. Michael J. Cleary of Dallas, PA. Both men were 24 years old.
We will run for Richard on July 20, 2008 outside Longton, Kansas.
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Faces of the Fallen
