
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A 24-year-old soldier who died in Iraq was remembered at a service as a family man and a role model.
Sgt. Glenn Richard Allison, who died Dec. 18 while undergoing physical training, was buried Dec. 27 with full military honors at Pittsfield Cemetery.
He “held high the flag for all of us, even in Baghdad, Iraq,” the Rev. Charles E. Pratt Jr. said at the service at Dery Funeral Home.
Pratt described Allison as “Pittsfield’s own Time magazine ‘Person of the Year,”’ referring to the magazine’s choice of the American soldier for the annual recognition.
“He was a family man, a good father, a wonderful brother, a product of our own...