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Pause to honor the fallen

Published 05/24/09
Colleen Dugan — The Capital TOP: Sitting together are Sgt. 1st Class James Stoddard Jr.'s family, daughter Megan Conley, 16, wife Amy Stoddard and daughter Makenzie Stoddard, 4. BOTTOM: Makenzie Stoddard, 4, wears a “My Daddy My Hero” T-shirt in remembrance of her father and holds a doll that shows her father’s image. Makenzie was about a year old when her father, Army Sgt. 1st Class James J. Stoddard Jr., was killed in Afghanistan in 2005. He was the first soldier in the county to be killed in the war.

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