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HONORING FALLEN HEROES

 
Published March 27, 2006

Veterans Vic Buresh, U.S. Navy, WWII, from left, Tom Gallagher, U.S. Air Force, Vietnam, and Fred Daniels, Navy, Vietnam, salute the colors during the Pledge of Allegiance at the Purple Heart Commemorative Ceremony held at Fallen Heroes Memorial in Bicentennial Park Saturday in Crystal River. The ceremony honored military personnel killed in the line of duty. Attendees include Mike Weaver and Dennis and Patricia Flanagan, whose sons, Aaron Weaver and Kevin Flanagan, were killed in Iraq, and Jill Desmond, widow of Dennis Boles, who died during training in Kuwait.