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steve: doing okay. s it s going to be a beautiful day. i would like to introduce to you major dan rooney. this is liz o hare and that is bill wrents from right aid. major dan, something different this year. tenth anniversary of the big party. last night the national gala. very successful. i was honored to be your wing man there august eyes on oklahoma because they have had such lousy weather down here, tornadoes and flooding. but the show goes on today, doesn t it. it does, steve. it s been biblical. i have been here 46 years. seen a lot of stuff. but, the show does go on and as the day the lord has made. you can t see it out there yet. but it is blue skies. birds are chirping. freedom isn t free and that s what we are here to celebrate on memorial day. steve: one of the stories we heard last night is liz s story. liz father army test pilot lieutenant commander. what happened? so my father was lieutenant commander raymond o hare. july 11th, 2,000.