For most military families, Memorial Day is a holiday marked by quiet moments of reflection, but for widows like Ashley Southard, Memorial Day is every day.
Southard lost her husband, U.S. Army Sergeant Andrew “Andy” Southard, on November 10, 2023, during a routine air refueling mission with Special Forces Unit 160th SOAR in the Mediterranean Sea. He was 27.
Each year, SGT Southard is honored at the Fort Campbell Boots Display Memorial, a powerful visual memorial for those who paid the ultimate price – but a new base policy intends to halt the somber display altogether.
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The famed 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment rocked NASCAR over the Memorial Day weekend.
Night Stalkers never quit.
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🚨 WATCH: EPIC flyover at the Indy 500 by the Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment
I can’t express to you how freaking back our military is.
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— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 25, 2025
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Almost as soon as The Wall went up, families came to Washington to find their sailor’s name.
They’d find Panel 23, a black granite slab of the Vietnam War Memorial — widely called The Wall — that held the names of Americans killed in the conflict in June 1969.
And time after time, family after family, shipmate after shipmate, the names weren’t there.
How could that be? When the USS Frank E. Evans sank in the South China Sea in June 1969, it was one of the deadliest single events for U.S. service members during the entire Vietnam War.
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I cannot pretend to know the pain that rests heavy on your hearts from beyond, nor can any man measure the cost you bore when you gave what was most sacred to a cause that,…