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Flag-Waving Residents to Line Procession Route

Posted by Cyber Pastor on Friday, June 22, 2007 9:12:23 PM
 
Hope to honor slain soldier


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   The funeral for Staff Sgt. Michael A. Bechert, 24, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Hope Moravian Cemetery. 

   Bechert, who was serving in Iraq with the U.S. Army, was injured during a Humvee attack near Baghdad on May 30. He was one day away from his 25th birthday, when he died from severe burns June 14 in a hospital in San Antonio. 

   Bechert will be buried next to his mother, who died when he was a young boy. 

   Local residents have been asked to honor Bechert by lining the route on Indiana 9 from Norman Funeral Home to the cemetery entrance. 

   The funeral party is scheduled to depart from the funeral home at 1:45 p.m. and proceed to the cemetery.

Flag distribution 

   Participants have been asked to report first to the shelter house in Hope Town Square by 1 p.m. to get a free American flag to wave as the procession passes. 

   Organizers have invited the public but asked that anyone arriving by car park in the church parking lot.
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