On Memorial Day, Jackie Francisco will run 31 miles solo from Bourne to Freetown to honor Tyler Trahan, 22, who lost his life April 30, 2009, while conducting combat operations serving in Iraq in the U.S. Navy in support of operation Iraqi Freedom.

Francisco, the principal at Freetown Lakeville Middle School since last September and former Fall River K through 12 director of fine arts, lives in Freetown, the same town where Trahan attended middle school. As a runner she often runs by the Tyler J. Trahan Memorial Rotary in East Freetown and thinks of him and his sacrifice.

He died two days short of his 23rd birthday.

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