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  • After Friends & Family Celebrate Soldier's Life, his Mother Blasts Pres Bush Over Son's Death

    11/15/2003 6:40:42 AM PST · by PLK · 50 replies · 232+ views
    Des Moines Register via AP | 11/14/03 | Don Babwin (AP)
    Genoa, Ill. - In a memorial service almost devoid of the military trappings that have become so familiar with those of other soldiers killed in Iraq, Army 1st Lt. Brian Slavenas was remembered Thursday as a gentle man."I met him as a freshman in high school and I never heard him put another kid down," said Phil Heinisch of Decatur, one of nine friends who told humorous and sometimes touching stories about Slavenas.Slavenas, 30, was one of 16 soldiers killed in Iraq earlier this month when the Chinook helocopter he was piloting was shot down.Also killed were Iowans, Sgt. Paul...