"The sun burned fiercely over the opening ceremony for the Freedom's Heroes War on Terror Memorial Sunday evening, but the fire of respect and honor for service members might have burned a little fiercer yet.About 300 people attended the ceremony in sweltering temperatures at Calvary Christian Center in Yuba City, where the memorial with the names of nearly 5,000 military men and women who've died during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will stand through Memorial Day."
Yuba City's Debbie Wood, treasurer of the Tri-County Blue Star Moms, traced the names of two soldiers who'd served with her son, an Army special forces soldier.
"Every friend they have becomes part of your life," Wood said, weeping. "That's why I'm here tonight."
She'll send the rubbings to the fallen soldiers' parents, who she's become close to since they died, she said.
"It's important for them to know that they're remembered," Wood said.
Blue Star Moms president Lori Danby of Yuba City said her son also has several friends' names on the wall.
"Now I have a lot of veterans who are friends. Memorial Day is not just a three-day weekend for me," she said.
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