Gold Star parents urge Americans to recognize those who 'wrote a check out for their lives' in the military
Hunter Lopez Memorial Foundation has donated 4 service dogs to veterans since 2021
By Jasmine Baehr Fox News
Published July 19, 2024 4:00am EDT
This is part 4 of Fox News Digital's Freedom Isn't Free series honoring America's fallen heroes.
Gold Star parents and retired law enforcement officers Alicia and Herman Lopez started a foundation in their son's name for the next generation of Marines.
Cpl. Hunter Lopez, 22, was killed in action on Aug. 26, 2021, alongside 12 other American service members in Kabul during the Afghanistan withdrawal.
Both Alicia and Herman Lopez reflected on what the expression "freedom isn’t free" means to them after the life, service and sacrifice of their son in an interview with Fox News Digital.
"I just really want people to take a minute and think of their freedom and their barbecues that they have and realize that there's men and women out there who signed that dotted line and wrote a check out for their lives. And some of those checks were cashed," said Alicia Lopez.
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