Happy Memorial Day to ALL veterans. Army, Navy, Air force, Marines and Coast Guard. Thank you for serving in the spirit of freedom.
Story behind poignant photo of grieving soldier: KCAL9's Tom Wait explains the story behind the picture of a grieving soldier in Monday's LA Times... The picture shows Iraq war veteran Sgt. Eric Hille, in full uniform, at the grave of a fallen colleague Sgt. Eric Holke at Riverside National Cemetery. The paper reported Hille, 33, walked 13 miles to get to the cemetery, but it didn’t explain why. Hille, a Cal Fire engineer, decided to start a new Memorial Day tradition this year by marching to a fallen soldier’s grave. He decided to start with someone he knew well, someone he would call a brother..