At this week's annual memorial ceremony we paid tribute to CIA officers who've died in the line of duty.
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1990: all surviving family members who could be found were invited to attend ceremony.
Many return year after year.
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1995: names of all fallen officers, including those undercover, are read aloud.
Proposed by an ops officer, this continues today
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2009: DCIA Panetta presented a replica star to brothers of Douglas Mackiernan, 1st CIA officer killed.
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Today, each family receives a replica star sculpted by same artist who engraves them on Memorial Wall.
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God bless heros
Could understand. Honoured and honour.
RIP, if it wasn't for you, it may have been me. Who knows?
First 2 ceremonies, only Agency employees allowed to attend.
1989: Richard Welch’s widow & son attended.
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