Va. Beach’s Seatack residents discuss important of historic honor [Video]

In Seatack, families can trace their lineage back generations, and in some cases even back as early as the 1800s.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Living underneath the daily roar of Naval Air Station Oceana’s fighter jets may sound like a nuisance. But generations have learned to love all that comes with living along Birdneck Road because roots run deep in Virginia Beach’s Seatack neighborhood.

Stepping into a Sunday service at one of the longtime historic congregations in the community is like stepping into the past. Stepping back in time to when everybody knew everybody and nobody was a stranger.

“I tried living a couple places, Florida, Washington D.C., Maryland, but I always had sand in my shoes and came back home,” Donnie Gregory told 13News Now.

Gregory, who’s lived in Seatack for almost seven decades, is the man you’ll hear behind the microphone at St. Stephen’s Church of God in Christ.

It’s the same congregation he’s attended since childhood.

“I guess I …