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A West Virgina University ROTC graduate says he’s grateful his mother was able to witness his commissioning before taking her last breath at a Maryland hospital.Senior Army ROTC Cadet Christian Arevalo, of Rockville, Md., was due to be commissioned in Morgantown on May 11, but instead was commissioned at his mother’s bedside two days before she died on Mother’s Day. ...Arevalo, 23, told MetroNews his mother’s breast cancer diagnosis had taken a grave turn and that he was left with no choice but to return to his home state to be with her. ...The ceremony ended as Arevalo bent over and gently kissed his mother on the forehead.Arevalo said he leaned on his mother a lot during his time in ROTC and said that the commissioning was special for the both of them. ...
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