A whole community says goodbye to a soldier

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American flags lined 65 miles of road, from Zanesville nearly to the Ohio River.


They flew along Rt. 60 -- more than 18,000 of them -- marking the funeral procession for the latest hometown hero to die in Iraq....

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/06/soldierfuneral.ART_ART_06-06-08_A1_H7ADTF6.html?sid=101

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"U.S. Army Spc. Kyle P. Norris was to have returned home to Belle Valley in July to propose to his girlfriend. Instead, friends, family members and perfect strangers turned out yesterday to honor the 22-year-old killed by a roadside bomb last month south of Baghdad.":down:

God bless this young man's soul and give comfort to his family, fiance, and friends. What a moving effort by the community.

Continue to pray for God's blessing and protection of our military men and women and for an end to the loss of American lives in Iraq.