Pawlenty orders flags lowered to honor MN soldiers
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Tim Pawlenty is ordering flags at the state Capitol complex lowered to half-staff to honor two Minnesota soldiers killed in Iraq.By: Associated Press, Worthington Daily Globe
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Tim Pawlenty is ordering flags at the state Capitol complex lowered to half-staff to honor two Minnesota soldiers killed in Iraq.
Pawlenty ordered flags lowered today to remember Spc. Daniel Drevnick of Woodbury. Drevnick's funeral is today in Woodbury, with burial at Fort Snelling National Cemetery.
The governor also ordered flags lowered on Monday. That's the day a funeral Mass will be held in Bird Island for Spc. James Wertish of rural Olivia.
Wertish and Drevnick were among three Minnesota National Guardsmen killed by an insurgent attack July 16 in Basra.
The funeral for the third soldier — Spc. Carlos Wilcox IV of Cottage Grove — is scheduled Tuesday in Louisville, Ky. Pawlenty will later order flags lowered in Wilcox's memory.
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