KCAL9's Tom Wait explains the story behind the picture of a grieving soldier in Monday's LA Times...
The picture shows Iraq war veteran Sgt. Eric Hille, in full uniform, at the grave of a fallen colleague Sgt. Eric Holke at Riverside National Cemetery.
The paper reported Hille, 33, walked 13 miles to get to the cemetery, but it didn’t explain why.
Hille, a Cal Fire engineer, decided to start a new Memorial Day tradition this year by marching to a fallen soldier’s grave. He decided to start with someone he knew well, someone he would call a brother..