Nellie Gail Ranch’s Gallup Park was the setting for 25 Tribute Banners honoring United States Marines who were killed in action, and  honored each year at the City’s Half Marathon, 5 and 10K race.   Due to cancellation of Laguna HIll’s annual Memorial Day Race, the Banners and the Marines on them would have been left unseen.  But Nellie Gail HOA and staff, along with volunteers from Team Darkhorse, created a way for our city to honor them again this year. Many of you came to walk among the banners, and reflect upon the sacrifice of these men.  Among those…

Strength, courage, resilience, resolve and absolute discipline of self are requisite qualities for success in the Marine Corps. Lt Col Hollopeter embodied those traits in his professional role, and that is how we first met him, in his role as Commanding Officer of the unit our City of Laguna Hills had adopted. When he took Command of 3/5, our support Committee (Team Darkhorse) naturally looked up to him , with the professionalism and objective distance we would consider appropriate to the role we play. Yet, in the brief time we knew him, or had the pleasure of his company, what…