This weekend Jill Stephenson is walking across a swath of Illinois to honor fallen soldiers and to help Americans remember them. Once you learn about her late son Benjamin Kopp, you may find that his story is impossible to forget.
The Chicago Tribune reports:
When her son enlisted at 18, many people asked Stephenson, who was a single mother, “How can you let him do that?” But she had known there would be no other route. He was determined....