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Granite Bay 'Walk Of Honor' Pays Tribute To Veterans

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Channel: KCRA 3 · 2018 · News & Politics

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A tribute to the nation's military veterans will be dedicated in Granite Bay Sunday. The "Walk of Honor" was designed and built by the Granite Bay Rotary Club. At the center of the display is a 50-foot pole flying the American flag with five shorter poles next to it displaying the individual flags of our armed forces. The tribute is under construction at the Granite Bay Community Park on the corner of Douglas Boulevard and Barton Road. "For our country. There's a lot of commotion.  Is it good, is it bad? Well we want to say it's good and we are behind the country. We don't get involved in politics, but there are certain things you can do that everybody agrees with," Rotary Club member Mike Baker said. The walk will be dedicated on the last Sunday of September which is also Gold Star Mom's Day -- a day to honor the mothers who have lost a son or daughter killed while serving our country. Patty Schumacher is a Gold Star Mom whose son, Victor Dew, was killed in Afghanistan. "Today being Sept. 25 he deployed exactly 8 years ago today. Eighteen days later, on Oct. 13, we received that horrible knock on the door that our son was killed. It was his first mission outside the wire, as they call it, outside his FOB (Forward Operating Base).It was a remotely detonated IED that was so powerful that it lifted the vehicle four feet in the air, corkscrewed it and created a six-foot crater," said Schumacher. Dew graduated from Granite Bay High School in 2008 and joined the Marines after a short stint at Sierra College. His parents said they tried to talk him out of joining the military, but he was insistent on serving his country. She hopes tributes like the Walk of Honor will remind people of the sacrifices our military make every day. "They say that a person dies twice, once when they take their last breaths and then a second time when they are forgotten.We don't want any of them forgotten, any of their deeds forgotten," Schumacher said. The Walk of Honor will be dedicated on Sunday at 10 a.m. at the Granite Bay Community Park on Douglas Boulevard and Barton. Everyone is invited to attend with a special invitation to Gold Star Moms and Veterans.

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