There are people from Pennsylvania that do come out here for the ceremony and to see the monument. People from Pennsylvania are very appreciative of the monument, how nice it looks and how well we care for it here in West Lafayette.
It's a ceremony to honor those who gave the last full measure of devotion for the freedoms we enjoy today. They did not die in a combat situation, but they were members of the military and were eventually going to be deployed to a military situation.
He was very seriously injured in the accident and doesn't know how he survived. All three people around him were killed.
