SANDPOINT — Theresa Hart laughed a few times as she told stories about her son, Nicholas Newby, to Mike Ehredt and few other people who moments before were complete strangers. That she could laugh at all as she reminisced about her son, who was killed at the age of 20 in Iraq in 2011, speaks to the strength and character of Hart. After her friend Jack Drapeau, a vet from Coeur d’Alene, saw an article about Ehredt running 300 miles in six days to honor the last 300 U.S. soldiers to die in war, he got in touch with Hart and the two drove up to Sandpoint to be on hand as the flag for Newby, who was an Army National Guard member, was placed in the mural/Eric Plummer, Bonner County Daily Bee. More here.