Saying,"His legacy is going to live on until the end of time," Willie Frank recalls his father, Billy Frank Jr. at a Sunday, May 11, 2014 public memorial at the Little Creek Casino near Shelton,Wash. honoring the environmental and native fishing rights champion who passed away May 5th. An overflow audience estimated at 6,000 filled the Squaxin Island Events Center along with adjacent portable tents and nearby hotel rooms to honor the 83 year-old Nisqually tribal elder and chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. Speakers included Gov. Jay Inslee. U.S. Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell and Squaxin Island Tribe Chairman David Lopeman. (AP Photo/The Olympian, Steve Bloom)
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Ovi scores goal 890, Caps lose to Sabres 8-5
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Hegseth joins veterans, generals to mark 80th anniversary of battle of Iwo Jima
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