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Thus, it was with great determination and grit that Mom would endure our family journeys to the Magic Mountain amusement park and points north, because the highway always took us past a special place, with a special story for Dad to tell and a special set of lessons for us to catalog. It was a story of fear, courage, sadness, sacrifice and valor. It was a story that began and ended for four brave men near a freeway exit sign simply marked “Henry Mayo Drive.”

The events of that night would be remembered not by the street name, but by the name of the city in which they occurred: Newhall. In time, that name would become loaded with a special meaning for law enforcement, spoken with a tone of reverence by those who knew what happened there. Unfortunately, that circle has grown smaller and smaller over the years, and the site itself has been razed and remodeled so that no trace of the original killing field remains.

We can’t allow the memories of what happened that day to fade away, and we can’t allow the lessons written in blood to be forgotten. As such, it’s time to go back to rural Los Angeles County and a young freeway that snaked through its canyons and the unincorporated city of Newhall . . .