Article: Last salute for an infantryman: Cpl. Aaron Gautier is remembered: the soldier, the son, the newlywed, the man.

Byline: Stephanie Heinatz

May 27--HAMPTON -- The American flag draping the silver casket sitting at the front of Fort Monroe's Chapel of the Centurian was symbolic of the man Army Cpl. Aaron Gautier had become.

He was patriotic, dedicated and loyal.

At 19 years old, he had learned what it meant to live honorably and with courage, family and friends said at his funeral Saturday.

The Hampton native enlisted in the Army a little more than a year ago, several months shy of his 18th birthday. In April, he was shipped off to Iraq with the Washington-based 2nd Infantry Division.

And on May 17, he was killed just south of Baghdad while ...

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