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  • May 2008

    • General on Funeral Duty: 'Grief Is the Crushing Load'

      Washington Post  |  May 26, 08 12:33 PM CDT

      General on Funeral Duty: 'Grief Is the Crushing Load'

      (Newser) - At every funeral for a soldier killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, an Army officer attends, to represent the service and oversee the military rituals involved. Maj. Gen. William Troy has drawn funeral duty 23 times, and for Memorial Day, he writes in the Washington Post about an always-wrenching experience : "You comfort where you can and bear witness to the loss." More »

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      Iraq war  • Afghanistan war  • Iraq death toll  • military funeral

  • April 2008

    • Soldier Laid to Rest After 4 Years

      Cincinnati Enquirer  |  Apr 28, 08 10:27 AM CDT

      Soldier Laid to Rest After 4 Years

      (Newser) - Thousands attended emotional memorial services over the weekend for an Ohio Army reservist whose remains made the journey home 4 years after he was captured in Iraq. Ten thousand filed past Staff Sgt. Matt Maupin's casket, and 3,000 attended a ceremony at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati yesterday, before a private ceremony in which he was buried next to five others killed in Iraq. More »

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      Iraq  • obituary  • veterans  • Iraq death toll  • Iraq veterans  • funeral  • military funeral  • Matt Maupin

  • March 2008

    • Army Cadet Found After 66 Years

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Mar 11, 08 12:55 PM CDT

      Army Cadet Found After 66 Years

      (Newser) - Sixty-six years after his disappearance, a full military funeral is planned for a cadet lost in a flight accident during World War II, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The Army has identified a recently discovered body as Aviation Cadet Ernest Munn of Ohio, who crashed with three other crewmen in an AT-7 Navigator flying over Kings Canyon National Park in 1942. More »

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      California  • Ohio  • soldier  • World War II  • accidental death  • MIA  • military funeral

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