
CONCRETE, Wash. — Relatives and friends of a soldier who died pursuing his dream in Iraq held U.S. flags along Washington 20 leading into town before his funeral.
About 100 people attended the burial Tuesday of Pfc. Kerry D. Scott, 21, at Forest Park Cemetery on the western edge of this town where he grew up in the foothills of the Cascades about 90 miles north-northeast of Seattle.
His casket was carried from a white hearse by six members of the 10th Mountain Division honor guard from Fort Drum, N.Y., past 18 leather-jacketed representatives of Combat Veterans International who stood at attention and saluted.
Scott had been with the division in Iraq six...