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Pause to honor the fallen

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Published 05/24/09
Colleen Dugan — The Capital TOP: Sitting together are Sgt. 1st Class James Stoddard Jr.'s family, daughter Megan Conley, 16, wife Amy Stoddard and daughter Makenzie Stoddard, 4. BOTTOM: Makenzie Stoddard, 4, wears a “My Daddy My Hero” T-shirt in remembrance of her father and holds a doll that shows her father’s image. Makenzie was about a year old when her father, Army Sgt. 1st Class James J. Stoddard Jr., was killed in Afghanistan in 2005. He was the first soldier in the county to be killed in the war.

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Monday is Memorial Day.

Many of you won't see this until returning home from the beach, or perhaps after hitting big sales marketed around the occasion. Some might even use this paper to help start the family barbecue. After all, that's what we do on Memorial Day weekend.

But for thousands of families, Monday is yet another day to remember the ones who once occupied a seat at the dinner table, played ball with the kids and provided a steady rudder for the family - until they died in war.

Monday is about all of us remembering them, too.

In Crofton, Amy Stoddard and her three children remember every day. So...

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