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Funerals for Iraq casualties take tollGUARD MEMBERS FEEL PAIN OF FAMILY, FRIENDS
By Bruce Schreiner
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOUISVILLE - It's the role that Kentucky's adjutant general dreads most but carries out with compassion and strict military decorum when the horror of war hits home.
When a Kentucky National Guard soldier is brought home from Iraq for burial, Maj. Gen. Donald Storm mourns with the families of slain soldiers and bestows posthumous military awards.
He has spoken at some funerals, and he is the one who presents the American flag that draped the coffin to the grieving wife or mother at the graveside.
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