27-05-2025
Remembering those who gave some and all to preserve freedom
EVANSVILLE, Ind (WEHT) – All veterans gave some and hundreds of thousands of them gave all to preserve freedom.
Honor guards spend a couple moments paying their debt of gratitude to those they say gave us the liberty we have.
Jim Gorman from Disabled American Veterans Chapter 7 is just one of them. He's a Vietnam vet who's seen his share of friends die in the line of duty, including his own classmate, David Garrett, from Rex Mundi High School.
'This is the day that we come and memorialize and witness to those people that wrote a blank check for their lives and cashed it,' he said. 'We honor their families as well as those people.'
Gorman joins the handful of other vets who present the colors, fire off a salute and lay a wreath at Corporal James Bethel Gresham's gravesite. An Evansville resident at the time, he is believed to be the first American soldier killed in World War I. Today, he is one of the countless reminders at Locust Hill Cemetery that freedom is not free.
TAPS is played to pay tribute to vets like him.
'We just want to keep it on the forefront of people's minds that there is — the purpose for this is just to remember and we acknowledge that men and women have given everything.'
On a solemn occasion, these veterans would like to remind the Tri-State to keep veterans like Garrett and Corporal Gresham at the forefront of its mind that some Americans gave everything.
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