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Former military members, from the Navy to the Army, present beautiful wreaths Saturday at Evergreen Memorial Park in Ogden as part of Wreaths Across America. (JENNIFER GHAN/Special to the Standard-Examiner)

Wreaths Across America honors military personnel

Last updated Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 11:40pm

OGDEN -- The freezing temperatures did little to stem the flow of tears at an emotional Wreaths Across America ceremony Saturday morning at Evergreen Memorial Park.

Before about 20 onlookers, veterans representing each branch of the military laid wreaths at the foot of the corresponding military branch platform markers that have been erected encircling the cemetery flagpole.

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Remains of 2 U.S. servicemen shot down over Laos come home for burial

Detroit Free Press, Joe Swickard, Todd Spangler

Last updated Friday, January 14, 2011 - 10:50am

DETROIT -- It was a few years back when Susan Greeson of Little Rock, Ark., was coming out of her barbershop and saw something shiny on the sidewalk. Picking it up, she saw it was a bracelet -- one of those remembrances produced by the millions in the 1970s in honor of missing or captured American servicemen.

This one had Maj. Robert Tucci's name on it. An Internet search told her all she needed to know about him -- born in Detroit, shot down over Laos in 1969. Missing in action. Greeson put the bracelet in a box so it wouldn't be lost again.

Friday, at the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery, Tucci's remains are finally being laid to rest, with full military honors. Greeson wept Thursday at the news.

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