PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- Family members of 19 members of a local military unit gathered to remember the unit killed in Operation Desert Storm 16 years ago.

Every year on Feb. 25 family members of soldiers from the 14th Quartermaster detachment get together to remember the people they call heroes.

In 1991, an Iraqi SCUD missile crashed into the makeshift sheet-metal barracks in Saudi Arabia where the detachment -- out of Greensburg -- was staying.

“It just gives us a place to come today, because today is such a hard day. It is the hardest day of the year,” said Connie Clark, who lost her daughter Beverly. “It gives you something to think about and it gets you through the night. We come here to the memorial, meet friends, some who have become like family to us now, we have close bonds made.”

A total of 43 soldiers were wounded in the attack.

The unit had only been in country for six days when they were hit. The attack came as a surprise because nobody expected to be in harm's way -- it was believed the war was about to end.