Freedom's Sacrifice: A Daughter's Memorial Day journey

Marilynn Rustand Lieurance, the daughter of a killed World War II-era pilot, rests her hand on the burial cross at her father's grave after a Memorial Day ceremony at the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial in Luxembourg, May 23, 2015. Lieurance's father, U.S. Army Air Corps 1st Lt. Hanford "Rusty" J. Rustand, a B-17 bomber pilot assigned to the 323rd Bombardment Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, remains buried at the cemetery. Rustand died when his B-17 came under enemy fire during a mission near Merseburg, Germany, and crashed, Nov. 2, 1944, nearly half a year before Lieurance's birth. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joe W. McFadden/Released)

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