When Cheyenne residents Jeremy and Cecelia Bay saw a Wyoming Pearl Harbor Survivor license plate in a Hawaii pawnshop, they knew they couldn’t leave it there. That plate needed to go home. They couldn’t leave it behind.
More than 1,670 names of fallen veterans from Wyoming are displayed on the newest statewide memorial — the Fallen Veterans Memorial — which will be unveiled in Casper on Saturday.
According to modeling by NUKEMAP, a direct hit to Cheyenne — Wyoming’s most likely target in a nuclear exchange — would result in more than 30,000 instant deaths. It gets worse from there.
The Big Horn High School football program has been part of the Heroes on Helmets program since 2018, and this season they’re honoring the 13 Marines killed in a suicide bombing last year in Afghanistan, including Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum of Jackson.
Community members along Interstate 25 on Monday stood on overpasses waving American flags as fallen Wyoming Marine Seth Rasmuson was driven back to Buffalo for his funeral.
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Gov Mark Gordon on Friday ordered flags to fly at half-staff through Monday evening as a result of the death of a Wyoming Marine Seth Rasmuson who was killed on Wednesday.
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U.S. Marine Seth Rasmuson from Buffalo, Wyoming was one of five Marines killed on Wednesday when an Osprey crashed in the desert near the California and Arizona border.
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Fallen Wyoming Marine Rylee McCollum’s father refused to meet with President Biden stating that “everything he’s done has been absolutely backwards.”
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Hundreds of people lined Broadway Ave in Jackson, Wyoming on Monday afternoon to welcome the family of a Wyoming Marine who died in a terrorist attack at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan on Thursday.
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The family of the Wyoming Marine killed in a terrorist attack on Thursday refused to meet with President Biden in Dover, Delaware over the weekend.
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The grief-stricken mother of the Wyoming Marine who was killed in a terrorist attack in Afghanistan on Friday blamed President Joe Biden and his voters for her son’s death.
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Over $500,000 has been raised for the family of Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum, the Wyoming marine who was killed in terrorist attacks in Afghanistan.
The U.S. military will require service members to be vaccinated against the coronavirus by mid-September, the U.S. Department of Defense announced on Monday.
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U.S. Sen. John Barrasso is joining 22 other senators in supporting a bill that would make it easier for the spouses of members of the military to practice their professions where their spouses are stationed.
In recognition of Remember Everyone Deployed (R.E.D.) Friday, the Wyoming Highway Patrol posted a photograph of members of the Wyoming Air Guard who came together at an undisclosed location in southwest Asia.
Fight OAR Die. No, that’s not a typo. It’s the slogan for a group of military veterans who next week will begin a weeks-long journey across the Atlantic Ocean… in a rowboat.
Wyoming’s next great museum is under construction and will open next May.
Watch this moving report from Monday’s Memorial Day service in Cheyenne. The ceremony offered a moving tribute to those who gave all in service to our country and a great reminder to share with our children and grandchildren of the blessing of being born in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
