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U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Adam J. Strain came home Saturday, August 13, 2005, to Nevada County, honored on the same football field where he helped create memories as a Nevada Union football player.
Ten days after he was killed by small-arms fire in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, Adam Strain was remembered as a hero, his remains tucked inside an oak coffin draped with the Stars and Stripes.
Under powder-blue skies sprinkled with clouds, hundreds of strangers and friends sat on the home side of Hooper Stadium to honor a 20-year-old man whose impassioned plea to help the United States after the terrorist attacks nearly four years ago ended in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.
Outside the stadium, dozens of Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Grass Valley Police and California Highway Patrol officers in their dress uniforms and members of the U.S. Marine Corps in dress blues stood as sentries, guarding the path of the funeral procession with large American flags along Ridge Road.
Cars drove with their headlights on, carrying tributes to Adam Strain, who knew at 15 that he wanted to help a nation at war, his father, Rob Strain, said.
There were cars painted with “RIP My Friend” and “Miss U Always” scrawled on the windows. One man in a red Honda, caught up in the funeral procession past the Don Baggett Theatre, casually extended two fingers in the air, proclaiming peace and victory for Adam Strain, his family, and a community scarred by the first local death in the 21Ú2 years since the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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Ken Unruh said he never knew Strain but felt compelled to join the procession along Ridge Road to support his son in the Boy Scouts.
“It’s out of respect for him that we’
Ten days after he was killed by small-arms fire in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, Adam Strain was remembered as a hero, his remains tucked inside an oak coffin draped with the Stars and Stripes.
Under powder-blue skies sprinkled with clouds, hundreds of strangers and friends sat on the home side of Hooper Stadium to honor a 20-year-old man whose impassioned plea to help the United States after the terrorist attacks nearly four years ago ended in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.
Outside the stadium, dozens of Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Grass Valley Police and California Highway Patrol officers in their dress uniforms and members of the U.S. Marine Corps in dress blues stood as sentries, guarding the path of the funeral procession with large American flags along Ridge Road.
Cars drove with their headlights on, carrying tributes to Adam Strain, who knew at 15 that he wanted to help a nation at war, his father, Rob Strain, said.
There were cars painted with “RIP My Friend” and “Miss U Always” scrawled on the windows. One man in a red Honda, caught up in the funeral procession past the Don Baggett Theatre, casually extended two fingers in the air, proclaiming peace and victory for Adam Strain, his family, and a community scarred by the first local death in the 21Ú2 years since the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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Ken Unruh said he never knew Strain but felt compelled to join the procession along Ridge Road to support his son in the Boy Scouts.
“It’s out of respect for him that we’
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