Capt. Michael Cribbs, commanding officer, Coast Guard Cutter John Midgett, listens to Dale Nitz as he shares a piece of his traveling Douglas Munro exhibit at the annual ceremony that honors Munro at the Laurel Hills Memorial Cemetery in Cle Elum, Wash., Sept. 27, 2018. The ceremony is held every year to commemorate the anniversary of Munro’s death on the Guadalcanal, where he was mortally wounded while voluntarily evacuating a detachment of Marines under attack from a larger force.

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