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Hundreds of Provo residents gathered at the Provo City Cemetery on Monday, May 27 for the Freedom Festival's annual Memorial Day Service.

BYU alumnus Shawn Wortham will attend flight school in Wichita Falls, Texas starting this week. Wortham said the Air Force ROTC taught him to be a good citizen. (Air Force ROTC Detachment 855)

U.S. Marines walk on the beach at Waimea Bay near Haleiwa, Hawaii, where two military helicopters crashed into the ocean about 2 miles offshore, Friday, Jan. 15, 2016. The helicopters carrying 12 crew members collided off the Hawaiian island of Oahu during a nighttime training mission, and rescuers are searching a debris field in choppy waters Friday, military officials said. (Associated Press)

BYU football was more than a passion for 81-year-old David Pinckney and his family: it was a way of life.

Living in wooden huts with tin roofs in 125 degrees Fahrenheit in Afghanistan was something Manti native Ben Fischer will never forget. Through life's unexpected turns Fischer did not take the normal route most would expect to take from high school to college.