Funeral for long-missing U.S. soldier
Hundreds of mourners trekked up a flag-lined street for the funeral of Army Staff Sgt. Alex Jimenez, 25, whose body was found 14 months after he and two fellow soldiers were captured during an ambush in Iraq.
His father, Ramon “Andy” Jimenez, wore his son’s dog tags around his neck, and his mother, Maria Duran, placed a cross on his casket in St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Lawrence, where Alex Jimenez had received his first communion.
The soldier’s casket was escorted by fellow members of the 10th Mountain Division.
On May 12, 2007, Jimenez, Spc. Byron Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Mich., and Pvt. Joseph J. Anzack Jr., 20, of Torrance were kidnapped south of Baghdad. Anzack’s body was found days later. Fouty’s remains were found with Jimenez’s.
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