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Students are honored to pay Honors

CAMP GUERNSEY JOINT TRAINING CENTER, Wyo. - "On behalf of the President of the United States, the United States Army, and a grateful nation, please accept this flag as a symbol of our appreciation for your loved one's honorable and faithful service."

Those words are not taken lightly by the small percentage of Wyoming Army National Guard personnel who join the Military Funeral Honors team and utter those words, while kneeling and handing a carefully-folded American flag to the loved one of a fallen service member.

In order to perform the solemn ritual, a soldier must learn, practice and pe...

 

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