Fast forward to the 21st century. Servicemembers, not unlike their
brethren from Bedford who fell on June 6 at D-day, just a handful of
the sacrifice from the Fifth District of VA, 1-435th of our Nation. Humayun Khan, a graduate of the aforementioned University of
Virginia, who, at risk to himself, moved his soldiers away and sought
to determine whether or not a vehicle approaching the point where he
was working was a threat, and ultimately, in protecting those with whom
he served, gave his life wearing the uniform of a nation to which his
parents had immigrated. Sergeant Andrew Crabtree, a Special Forces soldier who served
multiple tours defending America in the global war on terror and
recently passed to the next life from a cancer deemed to have been
service-related. And Seaman Dakota Rigsby, the son of working class folks from
Fluvanna County, Virginia, in the Fifth District, who tragically
perished while wearing the uniform of this Nation, defending that which
is worth defending, aboard the USS Fitzgerald.
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