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California Service Members Memorialized Through Display
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Local American Veterans First CEO Duke Cooper of Oakdale looks at some of the notes left as part of a new display honoring the California residents who have been lost in the War on Terror since 2001; among them, Navy Corpsman James Ray Layton, directly above the notes. Layton grew up in Riverbank and graduated from Vista High School in Escalon. Marg Jackson/The News
All branches of the military are represented and the names and faces range from residents of Rio Vista to Merced, Stockton to Pleasanton, Dixon to Turlock and beyond.