21st Annual Hubbard-Baro Memorial Golf Tournament honors local heroes

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Local fallen heroes were remembered and celebrated astatine the 21st Annual Hubbard-Baro Memorial Golf Tournament connected Tuesday.

The fundraiser is held each Veteran's Day successful grant of 10 work members from the Fresno country who gave their lives for their country.

"To retrieve is the full constituent of it. Never to hide what state costs," said Terry Baro. Her son, Marine Corporal Jeremiah Baro, was killed successful enactment connected August 22, 2007 successful Multaka, Iraq. He was 22 years old.

A brace of brothers, 22-year-old Lance Corporal Jared Hubbard and 21-year-old Corporal Nathan Hubbard, were besides among those honored.

All 3 young men were alumni of Buchanan High School, which has mislaid a full of 8 of its graduates that were killed successful the enactment of duty.

"It's a sacrifice. And everybody says, you know, convey you for your sacrifice. But honestly, it's my small boy. You know? He was a marine, yes, but it's the small lad that, you know, I pushed connected a bicycle and taught him connected his grooming wheels and got done his archetypal breakup with his girlfriend... but there's a life. There's a beingness there," said Terry Barro.

Hundreds of friends and household of the fallen, arsenic good arsenic veterans showed up Tuesday successful enactment of the tournament.

After a little ceremony, teams of golfers played astatine the Fort Washington Country Club to rise wealth for Fresno's V.A.

Organizers said that since the tournament's inception implicit 20 years ago, it has raised implicit a cardinal dollars to enactment veterans.