
Memorial Day 2019
Every year on Memorial Day I think of my brother, U.S. Air Force Capt. Arthur Freed who died when his plane went down in September 1962. At Arlington, he was remembered as the pilot who left Law School at Ohio State when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev threatened to annihilate the U.S. with nuclear weapons from Cuba. In gratitude for the country that welcomed his father from Russia and his mother from the Ukraine, Art, father of three small children made the supreme sacrific