Vallejo Mayor Robert McConnell said Memorial Day is "a day of mixed feelings where we have bittersweet memories of our comrades who fell and their circumstances come back to us in flashbacks."
Vallejo Mayor Robert McConnell said Memorial Day is "a day of mixed feelings where we have bittersweet memories of our comrades who fell and their circumstances come back to us in flashbacks."
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As well as being one of its country’s Armed Forces, the U.S. Coast Guard is also a regulatory agency and a law enforcement organization. But for the crew in San Francisco, it is the search-and-rescue duties where the risks and rewards are most finely balanced.