KANSAS CITY, Mo. – This Memorial Day holiday weekend is dedicated to the men and women who have served and died for our country. Right now in Kansas City there’s a special exhibit at Union Station that honors Missouri and Kansas heroes.
That includes fallen soldiers Shane Austin, 19, from Edgerton and Matthew Murchison, 21, from Olathe. PFC Austin was killed in Iraq in 2006. SPC Murchison died in Iraq in 2007. Their mothers now devote their lives to keeping their son’s legacies alive.
The “Remembering Our Fallen” exhibit has gone from state to state since 2011. It’s a traveling wall of faces, names and mementos of the men and women killed in action since September 11.
“It was October 7th, of 2006 was the last time I spoke with my son,” said Debbie Austin, mother of PFC Shane Austin.
She said the next day she got a knock on her door telling her that her son had died.
“From that day on my life has changed,” she said.
“He loved the military, he loved everything about the patriotism,” said Debbie Murchison-Perry, mother of SPC Matthew Murchison.
She said knowing her son is not being forgotten is what helps her fight the pain of knowing her son will never come home.
“That makes us strong, that makes us proud and that’s what keeps us going,” she said.
The “Remembering Our Fallen” exhibit remains at Union Station through Memorial Day. For more information and its next stops visit: http://rememberingourfallen.org/
