The boot of Sgt. 1st Class Ofren Arrechaga, U.S. Army, who died on March 29, 2011, during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
Seana Arrechaga with the combat boot of her husband, Sergeant First Class Ofren Arrechaga, at her partner Bob Moreo’s home in Thompson’s Station, Tenn., on June 8, 2025.
Seana Arrechaga is packing combat boots once displayed in a 101st Airborne Division memorial for soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Seana Arrechaga and her son, Alston.
For years, Fort Knox commemorated the loss of US servicemen and women’s lives in an annual display of their combat boots. Seana Arrechaga, whose late husband was killed in Afghanistan in 2011, is working to preserve the memory of these Americans (and their boots).
Editor: Jeffery Furticella