The loss was never far away. In 1967, local author Susan Kummernes stood at the grave of her first love, a young Marine gunner killed in action in Vietnam. As time passed, seasons changed and life ticked by like hands on a clock; not in hours, but in years. She thought of him often and made the pilgrimage to Arlington National Cemetery many times in the decades since his death to pay her respec...
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