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Army Reserve soldiers, close friends killed in drone attack, mourned at funerals in Georgia

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

Two young citizen-soldiers who became close friends after enlisting in the Army Reserve were remembered at funerals in southeast Georgia on Saturday, nearly three weeks after they died in a drone attack while deployed to the Middle East.

A service for 24-year-old Sgt. Kennedy was held in the packed 1,200-seat auditorium of Ware County Middle School in Waycross.

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