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Article: WHEN MEMORIAL DAY IS EVERY DAY.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- May 29, 2006
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Byline: DENNIS McCARTHY
They all have their own reasons for climbing these back stairs to work in the old, brick building where every day is Memorial Day.
For Becky James, it's a promise she made to Vietnam War widows in 1973 and 1974 as she handed them a folded flag at their husbands' grave sites.
``Almost all the women were young wives with children,'' she said, climbing the stairs. ``I cried at every one.''
James was a young Air Force honor guard sergeant at March Air Force Base near Riverside. With each folded flag came the promise the country would never forget their husband, their dad.
So, five days a week, she climbs ...