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| Fayette Co. man's body returns from Afghanistan |
| 2006-05-25 |
| BROOKVILLE, Ind. -- Ron Zimmerman is coming home to Indiana today. Zimmerman, the Connersville native and former Brookville police sergeant, was killed by a suicide car bomber May 17 while training Afghan police officers in Afghanistan. His body will be brought first to Franklin and then Fayette counties by a police motorcade today. Connersville and Brookville police officers will accompany Franklin and Fayette county deputies and Indiana State Police in picking up the body at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport to bring it back home. In Brookville, citizens are asked to line up beginning at 10:30 a.m. along Main Street and a short memorial service is planned for when the motorcade arrives, shortly before 11 a.m. at the Brookville Police Department, 461 Main St. The motorcade will then continue on to Connersville where funeral services will take place Tuesday and Wednesday. Zimmerman worked for DynCorp International in Afghanistan, training police to fight that country's illegal drug trade. He had previously served as a police adviser for a year in Kosovo. Let's not only honor his sacrifice and remember his family in our thoughts and prayers. Let's also ask ourselves, are we making the world a better place while we are here - because Ron Zimmerman certainly did. And let's appreciate those who do while they are still here. God bless Ron Zimmerman, his family and his loved ones. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #2 Amen to the above. We just had a funeral in our town for our first loss in the WOT. He was on the chopper in Afghanistan that went down May 5. Here's a link to the story in case anyone wants details. There's a great pic with the story also. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2006-05-25 22:13 |
| #1 What ryuge said. And our thanks. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-05-25 16:27 |