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Relatives, including Vivian Irizarry (center) and Sergeant Angel Ortiz, gathered around the urn containing the ashes of Army Captain Anthony Palermo Jr. at St. Patrick's Church in Brockton.

Slain Army captain 'was everything'

400 mourn his death in Iraq

By Brian R. Ballou
Globe Staff / May 20, 2007

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Dozens of soldiers and Marines stood at attention yesterday morning inside St. Patrick's Church in Brockton as a brigadier general wearing white gloves handed a folded American flag to the wife of Anthony Palermo Jr., a 26-year-old Army captain who was killed in Iraq last month. (Full article: 515 words)

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