On May 9, 1968, Marine Corps L/Cpl Timothy Fitzmaurice was killed in action in Thua Thien Province, Vietnam. His sisters, Ellen Shea and Maureen Schiesser, remember in vivid detail the subsequent knock on the door at their family home. More than 57 years later, Ellen and Maureen joined HFC123 as our inaugural Gold Star Family participants to honor their brother’s sacrifice as well as their own.