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Memorial Day is a time for remembrance; it'll certainly be a day one Airman here will never forget:

Senior Airman Emerald Ralston spent the day on an aeromedical evacuation flight from Germany to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. One of the patients was a combat medic who was injured in Iraq: Army Sgt. Ian Ralston, her brother.

Airman Ralston, a public affairs specialist, had been deployed to Afghanistan for about two weeks. Her job was to document and record the mission of joint and coalition efforts supporting the Afghan government. On a fateful day in late May, she was preparing for a mission, a convoy that would take her to her final deployment location, when she called home to check in.
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