On the first Memorial Day since Maj. Brent Taylor was killed in Afghanistan, his widow stood before a solemn crowd at Fort Douglas Cemetery and asked them to use her husband’s sacrifice — and her family’s loss — to make themselves better parents, children, siblings and Americans.
“For those of us who have personally lost a loved one to war, we don’t need a Monday on a calendar to tell us it is time for them to be memorialized,” Jennie Taylor told those gathered for the Memorial Day ceremony at the military cemetery on the University of Utah campus.