Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Governor (MT) orders flags lowered

HELENA - Gov. Brian Schweitzer ordered flags to fly at half-staff in Montana in memory of a soldier killed in Iraq.

Flags should be lowered from Tuesday through sundown Thursday to honor Army Staff Sgt. Yance Gray of Ismay. Gray was killed Sept. 10 when the cargo truck he was riding in overturned in Baghdad.

A member of the 82nd Airborne Division, Gray was one of the authors of a high-profile New York Times opinion piece critical of the progress being made in the war....

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