RAPID CITY, S.D. — Saturday was the Rapid City Rush’s Military Appreciation Night, one of their hottest theme nights each single 12 months. This 12 months that they had particular company all the best way from western Wyoming.
The household of Lance Corporal Rylee McCollum attended the Friday and Saturday evening video games. McCollum was a 20-year-old Marine who was killed along with 12 others in Afghanistan in August 2021. The Jackson, Wyoming native left behind a younger spouse, who was additionally in attendance with their daughter, born simply weeks after Rylee’s dying.
Before the sport, the McCollum’s acquired to attend morning skate, the place they met Rush gamers and talked with workers and coaches.
“Every time you carry up these reminiscences or that, it hurts,” says Jim McCollum, Rylee’s father. “But it’s additionally why we’re right here, to honor them and to honor the army.”
Mr. McCollum mentioned the journey was very humbling. They had been escorted by regulation enforcement in to city from the Wyoming border.
“We’re simply so impressed with how humbling and the way a lot all people right here appreciates army and heroes and repair members,” says Rylee’s older sister, Cheyenne McCollum. “It’s actually an honor and we’re tremendous grateful that you just guys would have us.”
McCollum’s older sister Roice mentioned they had been capable of see the assist of the neighborhood on full show throughout Friday evening’s Rush sport, the place crowds, as standard, erupted in cheer for the “Hero of the Game” announcement.
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