Shaffer
04-03-03, 04:22 PM
The words, printed on a glossy sheet of paper beneath a photo of Marine Capt. Ryan Beaupre, said it all, though it was not the homecoming the people of St. Anne wanted.
The people gathered anyway Tuesday in the gym of the tiny Kankakee County town's grade school, dressed in their Sunday best, to welcome their hero who had grown up in their midst.
Beaupre, a Marine pilot, died March 21--on the second day of the war in Iraq--in a helicopter crash in the Kuwaiti desert along with 11 other U.S. and British soldiers. The crash, which is under investigation, was not caused by hostile fire, military officials said. Beaupre was 30.
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The people gathered anyway Tuesday in the gym of the tiny Kankakee County town's grade school, dressed in their Sunday best, to welcome their hero who had grown up in their midst.
Beaupre, a Marine pilot, died March 21--on the second day of the war in Iraq--in a helicopter crash in the Kuwaiti desert along with 11 other U.S. and British soldiers. The crash, which is under investigation, was not caused by hostile fire, military officials said. Beaupre was 30.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/iraq/cst-nws-visit03.html