Classmates of the late Infantry Captain Humbert Rogue Versace, West Point’59, place a wreath at the foot of the statue within the plaza at the Mount Vernon Community Center on Memorial Day.

“God Bless America” resounded throughout the conversations as people remembered the late Infantry Captain Humbert “Rocky” Rogue Versace and the other 66 Alexandrians who lost their lives in the Viet Nam War. This year at the Memorial Day ceremony, two school girls, Virginia Sacotingo and Alexis FuBao Colton, led the congregation in song. Smiles and tears filled the eyes of all in attendance. A prisoner of war in Vietnam, Versace was executed by his captors. He had refused to give in to their demands. A West Point graduate of the Class of ’59, he took the challenge in front of him and kept singing: “God Bless America, Land that I love, Stand beside her, and guide her, Through the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam God Bless America, My home sweet home. God Bless America, My home sweet home.”

West Point Academy graduate ’59, Ed Robinson salutes as the flags are raised at the …

In tribute to the late Infantry Captain Humbert Rogue Versace and all other 66 Alexandria …

Friends, neighbors and passers-by stop and pay tribute to lives sacrificed at the Memorial Day …

The St. Rita’s Heritage Girls Troop 1381 led those gathered in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Family members and friends read the names of the 67 Alexandrian’s who lost their lives …

Classmates of the late Infantry Captain Humbert Rogue Versace, West Point’59, place a wreath at …

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