“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.”
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