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Rose Haven soldier killed in Iraq

Published 07/26/06
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Army Staff Sgt. Chris Swanson is coming home from Iraq this week.

He'll arrive at Dover Air Force Base, where fellow servicemen, in a solemn, deliberate and oft-repeated ceremony, will remove his flag-draped coffin from the belly of a cargo plane.

Sgt. Swanson, a 1999 graduate of Southern High School from Rose Haven, was killed Saturday in an ambush in Anbar. He was 25 years old.

Following visitation sessions Monday and a funeral at his home church in Upper Marlboro on Tuesday morning, he'll be buried under the watchful eye of the Army's Old Guard at Arlington National Cemetery.

"This is tough, man, tough,"...

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