U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, both members of the West Virginia National Guard, were serving their country when they were mercilessly targeted by a gunman in Washington, D.C., last Wednesday. It's a devastating tragedy that never should have occurred.

Beckstrom, who died from her wounds on Thanksgiving Day, and Wolfe, who, as of press time, remained in serious condition, were two of the hundreds of West Virginia Guard members deployed to the nation's capital by Gov. Patrick Morrisey to bolster President Donald Trump's own deployment of troops. Trump said the Guard was activated to crack down on violent crime, and Morrisey was one of the first governors in the country to send in troops to support the mission, and in the largest number o

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