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Standing in front of a small crowd, lit by a smoke-tinged sunset, author and Gold Star spouse Brooke Jenkins Walters urged the audience to honor soldiers’ sacrifices by living life
Corner Canyon HS softball team hosts Gold Star families FOX 13 and last updated 2021-04-12 22:59:52-04 DRAPER, Utah â The Corner Canyon High School softball team played an emotion-filled game Monday, and it had nothing to do with the final score. In the school's annual military appreciation game against Lehi, each student wore a jersey and played in honor of a Gold Star family of a fallen soldier. Before the game, the players hosted families from the Operation Hero program. During opening ceremonies, boots from each honored soldier were placed along the backstop behind home plate. FOX 13...
Outside military recruitment centers. they're motivated by the shooting of a teenage recruiting center last month, which killed four marines and a sailor. the pentagon does not support the self-appointed security guards. in fact, it's asked them to stop. for the volunteers it's nothing less than their patriotic duty. nbc's ronin farrow has the story. >> reporter: setting out for what he calls a mission. army veteran father of five meets up with a group of self-styled guards armed to the teeth. >> i've got my ar-15. two, three mags. >> i have a crkt. >> second, rock river ar-15. >> reporter: do...
They are in hospitals for times six months to a year and they are in washington, d.c., it is very important for them to be with their families. whether they are married, their are children. and so but it costs money and the fisher house only has a certain amount of rooms for the families to live in. we decided to ask people in our country to donate their hotel reward points to the troops to their families so fly here on operation hero miles for free and stay in hotels for free. >> i don't like staying in hotels so i never give them my number. i had my assistant go back through and i had 26,000...
Help to those to sacrifice so much for each of us. what is it? one of the new architects of the program joins us. >> senator ben cardin and i kicked off a program last week called hotel forwh for heros. you other operation hero he miles where we helped troops who had to pay their own way to go home dropped off coming back from iraq on their r and referendum. i put together a program that allowed people to donate frequent flyer miles. that is a very successful program and still is going on. the fisher house is a group that really has homes like the ronald mcdonald house in all army navy bases t...