Scott P. McLaughlin
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Age: 29
From: Hardwick, Vt.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 172nd Armor Regiment, 42nd Armor Division, Vermont Army National Guard, St. Albans, Vt.
Incident: Army Spc. Scott P. McLaughlin was killed Sept. 22 by enemy small-arms fire in Ramadi, Iraq.
Died: September 22, 2005
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Guardsman never forgot Vermont’s forests and mountains
Associated Press
WATERBURY CENTER, Vt. — Vermont Army National Guard Spc. Scott McLaughlin was a Green Mountain Boy who never forgot the forests and mountains where he was raised, even when he was sent to Iraq.
People who attended his funeral Saturday at the base of the Green Mountains heard how proud McLaughlin was to serve his country and also how much he loved the deer, the bear and the moose that live in the mountains around him.
“No matter what challenges he faced, he took with him the values that he’d learned here from his family, from his faith, from his community growing up across Vermont,” Maj. Gen. Martha Rainville, the commander of the Vermont National Guard, said at his funeral. “He, among others, was strongly, strongly connected to who he was and where he came from. He lived the values that we speak about so...
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