
ZANESVILLE, Ohio — Firefighters draped a flag between two raised truck ladders and small groups of people waved flags, held their hands over their hearts and saluted the procession to the cemetery for a Marine killed in Iraq.
Earlier Thursday, hundreds of people packed the pews in the Maranatha Bible Church for the funeral of 21-year-old Cpl. Todd J. Godwin. He is the 30th Ohioan killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Godwin, who was a sniper, died instantly July 20 when shrapnel from the roadside bomb hit him in the neck and severed his spine, the Marine Corps said. He was riding in a Humvee in Iraq’s Anbar province with other Marines. No other members of the platoon were...