Baseball has the power to bring people together, with family and friends gathering to root, root, root for the home team. On Saturday, at Avista Stadium, the Spokane Indians helped take that sentiment to another level entirely.

Airman Sierra Burke is a member of the Air National Guard 141st Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild Air Force Base. Burke, whose civilian job is Campus Supervisor at Ridgeline High School in Liberty Lake, left her family behind in Spokane in April to participate in basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio and tech school at Keelser Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Burke, 38, hasn’t seen her two children – Zach, 18, and Caydence, 13 – since she left for basic. She told them she would be home “sometime in August” but didn’t know when. It’s the long

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