RICHMOND, Vt. (AP) – With poetry, song and personal remembrances, the family and friends of a U.S. Army private killed in Iraq paid tribute to him Thursday in the same church where he was married less than a year ago.
More than 300 mourners packed Richmond Congregational Church to say goodbye to Pvt. Adam Muller, 21, a gunner with the 10th Mountain Division who died Nov. 5 when a roadside bomb blew up near the vehicle he was traveling in, near Tal Al-Dahab.
Three other members of the Fort Drum, N.Y.,-based unit were also killed.
Muller, the 25th servicemember with Vermont ties to die in Iraq, was a Mount Mansfield Union High School graduate who studied at Vermont Technical College and aspired to a career in law enforcement.
He was told by the Army two weeks before he shipped out that he’d be a gunner. When he signed up in 2006, he was told he would be providing security for top officials, according to a family friend.
Eight posterboards containing photographs of him – from his childhood through to his Army service – were placed in the front of the church, four on each side of the casket. A framed color picture of him sat on the podium.
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