Family, friends lay soldier to rest in Bethlehem: Army Spc. Frederick A. Carlson IV, who died in Iraq, is remembered with honors, medals.

From: The Morning Call (Allentown, PA) | Date: April 4, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Nicole Radzievich

Apr. 4--Nearly 100 mourners on Monday followed the solemn cadence of a horse-drawn carriage that took the body of Army Spc. Frederick A. Carlson IV to his final resting spot in Bethlehem's Nisky Hill Cemetery.

Beneath an overcast sky, military officials, politicians, friends and family bade farewell to the 25-year-old Pennsylvania National Guardsman who died March 25 after fellow soldiers found him unconscious in his bed at a base in Taqqadum, Iraq, west of Baghdad. At the funeral service, Monsignor Edward Coyle, pastor of the Most Blessed ...

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