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‘Those are our heroes’ Area events pay tribute to fallen on Memorial Day By ALLISON GOODRICH agoodrich@shawmedia.com
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CRYSTAL LAKE – A combat medic who attended to troops on the battlefield, killed by an enemy hand grenade. A behavioral health specialist who worked with traumatized soldiers, killed when his vehicle was struck by an IED. These two are among a number of men and women who have died while serving their country, acknowledged Monday by keynote speaker Brigadier Gen. Keith Gallagher. He spoke in front of throngs of people crowding together in More online Crystal Lake’s Union Cemetery for the Watch a video city’s annual Memo- and see a photo gallery from Merial Day service. “Those are our he- morial Day events roes ... who are doing in McHenry Counthe hard work our ty at NWHerald. nation asks us to do, com. and unfortunately they lost their lives doing it,” said Gallagher, who came from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Organized jointly by the city of Crystal Lake, the American Legion Post 171, and the VFW Post 12014, Monday’s event started just as the sun broke through a wall of gray clouds. After a parade including local high
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See MEMORIAL DAY, page A5 ABOVE: Cub Scout Jacob Lutton of Crystal Lake, 9, plays with a rubber duck in a puddle of water created by earlier rains before the annual Memorial Day parade Monday in Crystal Lake. LEFT: Dylan Driscol of Crystal Lake, 4, waits in a patriotically decorated wagon before the parade. Photos by Matthew Apgar – mapgar@shawmedia.com
Priscilla Dvoracek of Lakewood (left) helps Stacey Collins of Crystal Lake decorate a trolley with red, white and blue ribbons before the annual Memorial Day parade Monday in Crystal Lake.
CRYSTAL LAKE – After a successful inaugural year, the Patriot Run will be back on the streets of Crystal Lake in June. Organizer Mike Splitt said in 2014 the event raised $33,000, which was donated to area organizations that assist veterans. Splitt hopes to raise more this year, and draw more than 500 participants, volunteers and spectators to McHenry County College on June 28. “It’s a good way to give back to people who have given their lives and limbs,” Splitt said. If you go Transit i o n a l L i v - n WHAT: Crystal ing Services Lake Patriot Run of McHenry n WHEN: 7:30 County and a.m. June 28 the Veterans n WHERE: Assistance C o m m i s s i o n McHenry County are the main College, 8900 recipients of Route 14, Crystal proceeds from Lake the run, Splitt n COST: $35 for 5K, $15 for 1-mile said. They offer course services that n INFORMATION: address veter- 815-459-1773 or ans’ needs for mchenrycountypashelter, and triotrun.org help address problems such as addiction, trauma and unemployment. These agencies also offer financial assistance for shelter, utilities, transportation, food and household items. Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Everett Pratt, who serves as the board president for Transitional Living Services, said the proceeds account for a substantial portion of the donations the nonprofit agency receives. It costs $1,000 a month to care for one veteran in the agency’s New Horizon’s vet shelter in Hebron, he said. “[The run] is important because we have a lot of veterans
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Obama honors sacrifices of service members at Arlington By DARLENE SUPERVILLE The Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. – President Barack Obama on Monday saluted Americans who died in battle, saying the country must “never stop trying to fully repay them” for their sacrifices. He noted it was the first Memorial Day in 14 years without U.S. forces engaged in a major ground war. Speaking under sunny skies to some 5,000 people in an amphitheater on the hallowed grounds of Arlington National Cemetery, Obama said the graveyard is “more than a final resting place of heroes.” “It is a reflection of America itself,” he said, citing racial and religious diversity in the backgrounds of the men and woman who paid the ultimate sacrifice to preserve “the ideals that bind
us as one nation.” His appearance is an annual rite for presidents at the cemetery nestled among hills overlooking the Potomac River. It came months after the end of the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan, where the number of stationed troops has been reduced to about 10,000 from more than 100,000. His tribute also took place against a backdrop of the increasingly complex U.S.-led effort to help Iraq defeat the Islamic State extremist group, which has been gaining momentum in recent weeks by capturing Ramadi there and taking Palmyra in neighboring Syria. Obama made no mention of America’s participation with other nations in the effort to stop the Islamic State. His effort there has come under intensifying criticism since the fall of Ramadi with lawmakers calling for a
bigger show of American force there, including ground troops. Vice President Joe Biden spoke Monday with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and pledged full U.S. support for Iraqi efforts to reclaim territory from the Islamic State, including by speeding up the provision of U.S. training and equipment, the White House said. Defense Secretary Ash Carter had said in a nationally broadcast interview aired Sunday that Iraqi forces “showed no will to fight” and fled as the Islamic State advanced on Ramadi. The White House said in a statement that Biden’s call “recognized the enormous sacrifice and bravery of AP photo Iraqi forces over the past 18 months Katie Mcgaha (right) walks Monday with Madelyn Andrews of Woodland Hills, Calif., in Ramadi and elsewhere.”
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while placing flags at headstones in remembrance of Memorial Day at The Los Angeles National Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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