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Transcript: Remembering Marine Killed In Afghanistan
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RENEE MONTAGNE
NPR Morning Edition
11-13-2009
Remembering Marine Killed In Afghanistan
Host: RENEE MONTAGNE
Time 10:00-11:00 AM
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RENEE MONTAGNE, host:
We have a story now about a soldier killed in the war ignited by those 9/11 attacks. Marine Corporal, Gregory Fleury, was a native Alaska, 23 years old, and on a combat tour when he was killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan last month. Yesterday, President Obama stopped in Anchorage on his way to Asia and met with Fleury's family.
Alaska Public Radio Network's Annie Feidt has this remembrance of the young Marine.
ANNIE FEIDT: As his friends tell it, Corporal Gregory Fleury didn't have a lot of natural athletic talent. He was ...