Gold Star Wife Lorri Spada of Peters places a wreath at the base of a statue dedicated to those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan during a ceremony at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum in Oakland on Monday, May 30, 2022. Spada’s husband U.S. Army corporal Anthony Noah Conti died in Vietnam in 1968. The bronze monument, known as “America’s Defenders,” features two soldiers — a male and a female. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)