Family Buries U.S. Soldier and His Mother

Beyond tragic:

An Army sergeant killed in a missile attack as he was
returning home for his mother's funeral was buried along with her
Saturday.
Mary Ellen Bucklew, 57, of Darlington Township, died Oct. 31 of an
aneurism as she drove home from work. Her 33-year-old son was on
emergency leave two days later when the CH-47 Chinook helicopter he was
in was shot down near Fallujah, Iraq Military officials presented his
wife, Barbara, and his father, Donald, with American flags. Barbara
Bucklew also received her husband's Purple Heart and Bronze Star.
Ernest Bucklew, the son of a coal miner, grew up in Geneva, Pa., and
Morgantown, W.Va., where he attended high school and college and joined
the National Guard. He joined the Army in 1999.

Posted by flow Frazao on November 8, 2003 at 09:14 PM | Permalink