Christian Fagala, 9, of Quantico, Va., receives the Operation Homefront 2016 Marine Corps Military Child of the Year Award, during Operation Homefront’s Eighth Annual Military Child of the Year® Award Ceremony here on Thursday, April 14. Presenting the award are Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (right); Maj. Gen. James W. Lukeman, Commanding General, Marine Corps Training and Education Command; Catherine Blades, Chairwoman of the Board at Operation Homefront and Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, at Aflac; and Brig. Gen. (ret.) John I. Pray Jr., President and CEO of Operation Homefront. - Christian Fagala, 9, of Quantico, Va., receives the Operation Homefront 2016 Marine Corps Military Child of the Year Award, during Operation Homefront’s Eighth Annual Military Child of the Year® Award Ceremony here on Thursday, April 14. Presenting the award are Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (right); Maj. Gen. James W. Lukeman, Commanding General, Marine Corps Training and Education Command; Catherine Blades, Chairwoman of the Board at Operation Homefront and Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, at Aflac; and Brig. Gen. (ret.) John I. Pray Jr., President and CEO of Operation Homefront.
Christian is one of 90 semifinalists chosen for this year’s Military Child of the Year hosted by Operation Homefront. His father is an active duty Marine with the Marine Corps Combat Development Command aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico. The nine-year-old cancer survivor wants to be a Marine when he grows up like his father and hopes to raise $100,000 for childhood cancer research. - Christian is one of 90 semifinalists chosen for this year’s Military Child of the Year hosted by Operation Homefront. His father is an active duty Marine with the Marine Corps Combat Development Command aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico. The nine-year-old cancer survivor wants to be a Marine when he grows up like his father and hopes to raise $100,000 for childhood cancer research.