RICHMOND, Va. — At the Virginia War Memorial on Sunday, 12,000 names are being read out loud.
During the service, Phillip Deane sat quietly across from the podium, a veteran himself, waiting patiently for one name in particular — his uncle.
“Layton was a young sailor at Pearl Harbor in 1941. His destroyer was actually able to make it out of Pearl Harbor that day and resume some operations. Later on in his career, that particular destroyer was destroyed itself out in the South Pacific,” Deane said…