'This is not just a day about hamburgers': Man mourns brother at Florida National Cemetery

“The saying is time kind of heals. No. I feel the same. I still feel hurt and sad. But we know he’s in heaven,” said Adel Ramirez.

Adel Ramirez remembers his brother’s ability to make everyone feel like a friend, his big smile and his Purple Heart.

"Everything that you would want a big brother to be, he was," said Adel Ramirez.

Sgt. Eric Ramirez died on the battlefield during Operation Iraqi Freedom when he was 31.

“He was deployed right after the attacks on 9/11 and served there for about a year. Probably a couple of months before he was to return, he passed away. He was killed by an IED,” said Adel Ramirez.

That’s why Adel Ramirez chose to spend this Memorial Day at Florida’s National Cemetery.

"This is not just a day about hamburgers and going to the beach and having picnics. It's about remembering the soldiers who have lost their life for this country," he said.