After more than a year of isolation, American veterans are embracing plans for a more traditional Memorial Day
“I’ve been reliving this for a whole year,” she said. “At every milestone. Veterans Day. His birthday. His death anniversary. Everything is a constant reminder of what happened. It’s so painful to think about.”For other families, Memorial Day will be as it ever was, a day to remember loved ones killed in war.
Air Force Maj. Charles Ransom was among eight U.S. airmen killed in Afghanistan when an Afghan military pilot opened fire at the Kabul airport in 2011. The American Legion post in Midlothian, Va., that the elder Ransom once helped lead is nowThe Powhatan resident says a silver lining this year is that the country is poised to end the war that claimed his 31-year-old son and the lives of more than 2,200 other American fighters.
Back in Boston, DeOld will be thinking about his father, an Army vet wounded in a grenade attack in Vietnam.
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