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Kin, friends bury sergeant at solemn Arlington service

By JAMES ARKIN THE WASHINGTON POST

Posted: February 10, 2013 at 3:38 a.m.

A crowd of more than 100 family members, friends and uniformed service members marched slowly and quietly Friday down a hill at Arlington National Cemetery following Army Sgt. Aaron X. Wittman’s coffin, draped with an American flag and carried on a horse-drawn caisson.

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