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Monday, May 27, 2013  The President gave his annual Memorial Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery today, and in it made special mention of a soldier with Central New York ties who was killed in Afghanistan on May 4.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011  It is a somber day on at Syracuse University as the campus pauses to remember the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011  Deputy Kurt Wyman was killed in the line of duty. He has now been buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Monday, August 15, 2011  A military funeral at the historic Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia is being held for the double-amputee Iraq war veteran who was thrown to his death from a western New York roller coaster.

Thursday, July 14, 2011  A funeral is set for an Iraq war veteran who lost his legs in a roadside bombing and died when he fell off an upstate New York roller coaster.

Friday, June 17, 2011  The remains of a serviceman missing in action from the Vietnam War have been identified as those of a Seneca Falls man.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011  A memorial service has been being held at Arlington National Cemetery for a Michigan soldier and two others whose helicopter was shot down in Laos in 1968.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011  A memorial service is being held at Arlington National Cemetery for three soldiers whose helicopter was shot down in Laos in 1968.

Thursday, November 11, 2010  A Cortland soldier who was reported Missing in Action in Vietnam for more than 40 years was honored in Cortland Thursday.