In Memory of Army SPC Anthony David Kinslow |
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July 4th Parade 2005 |
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A 2002 graduate of Big Walnut High School who would have come home in August was killed June 13 in a grenade attack along with a northeast Ohio soldier three weeks away from ending his service in
Iraq. Army Spec. Anthony David Kinslow, 21, of Galena, died June 13, 2005 in
Ramadi, Iraq in service to his country.
Army Spc. Anthony D. Kinslow, 21, of Genoa Township, and Sgt. Larry R. Kuhns Jr., 24, died when their Humvee came under attack in
Ramadi, the volatile town 70 miles west of Baghdad. Both were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division from Fort Carson, Colo., which has lost 65 soldiers in Iraq.
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A prayer service was held at 4 p.m. Wednesday. A Mass of Christian burial was celebrated at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. John Neumann Catholic Church, in Sunbury, with Father James A. Walter as celebrant. A procession formed at the church and went to Resurrection Cemetery where he was interred. | |||
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