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Family, supporters greet Montgomery with tears
By: John Arthur Hutchison / JHutchison@News-Herald.com
The body of Marine Lance Cpl. Brian P. Montgomery was brought home Saturday.
Montgomery's body arrived at Cleveland Hopkins Airport about 6 p.m., then was transported by a police procession to McMahon-Coyne-Vitantonio Funeral Home in Willoughby shortly before 8 p.m.
Montgomery was among six Marines who were killed Monday by insurgents at Haditha Dam, Iraq, 140 miles northwest of Baghdad.
"I'll tell my son what a great man his dad was and what a great hero he was,"...
Ohio Community Honors Slain Marines
CLEVELAND - On the stage sat a helmet, a pair of worn soldier's boots and a folded American flag. In the audience were thousands who turned out Monday night to honor 16 fallen Marines and their hard-hit Ohio battalion.
Families Begin Funerals for Ohio Marines
Associated Press | August 08, 2005
Memorial salutes troops, families
Cleveland mayor: Support runs deep
Saturday, August 6, 2005
By Janice Morse
Enquirer staff writer
CLEVELAND - Mayor Jane Campbell delivered a message Friday that military mom Karen Parker needed to hear: "You are not alone."
Community mourns Marine deaths at memorial service / Associated Press / Tuesday, August 9, 2005
CLEVELAND - Tears flowed as the faces of Marines killed in Iraq were displayed during a tribute that some military families believed was overdue for troops dying for the country.
Thousands of strangers showed their thanks Monday night to the families of Ohio's fallen Marines by attending a hour-long community memorial service at the I-X Center, a convention hall right next to Brook Park, home of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines that lost 16 members recently.
All of a sudden, it's someone you know...<>By:Jonathan Tressler / JTressler@News-Herald.com / 08.09.2005
Troops' lives honored
But perhaps more important were the thousands of everyday citizens who showed up at the I-X Center in Cleveland from all around Ohio to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving in Iraq.
Take Lance Schamberg of Middlefield Township, who came to the memorial with his wife, Betsy, and 3-week-old daughter, Ava...
Ohio unit deaths stir war sentiments
Expert says U.S. casualties in Iraq will boost critics' resolve, cause supporters to question handling of the conflict. / Associated Press Writer
BROOK PARK, OHIO – Casimiro Zayas held his right hand to his brow, a salute to Ohio's fallen Marines in Iraq as the national anthem was sung at a prayer vigil.
As casualties have mounted, Zayas' stance on the war has grown more resolute.
"In the beginning, I was against it," said Zayas, whose son is in the Army in Iraq. "But now that we're there, we're making a difference and we should stick it out. We've lost too many lives."
Let us resolve that none of these men died needlessly
For the first time the war hit home for many young graduates of Cincinnati high schools with the deaths of the local Marines. Chris Dyer graduated a year below me and was one of the Marines killed in the bombing near Haditha dam. I am proud to have known Chris and think that it is a tragedy that his life was ended so shortly. However, it seems that in reaction to his death people are taking attacks on the Bush administration and the current Iraqi campaigns. I think that this is the last thing that those 14 Marines killed Wednesday would want to see.
Grieving for those who served us
Cincinnati.com / The Enquirer
For more than two years now we all have been seeing reports of American casualties in Iraq. They usually come out one or two names at a time. But unless the name is someone you are personally close to, there is still a distance to those casualties. That distance closed quickly this week with word that 14 Marines from a reserve unit based in Ohio had been killed in two attacks. Five of those young men came from the Cincinnati area.
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