'American Hero' Laid to Rest
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Kenneth Michael Ballard loved being a soldier.His father and grandfather had served in the military, and Ballard was born at an Air Force base in Upstate New York. He enlisted in the Army after high school, serving in Bosnia and Macedonia before going to Iraq.
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Americans stood in silence and world   leaders paid their respects on Monday five years after   hijackers crashed airliners into Washington and New York icons   of U.S. finance and government in the deadliest attack in U.S.   history.
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Vilma Espin, the former guerrilla fighter who was communist Cuba's most politically powerful woman, was laid to rest with full military honors Friday.
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A 15-year-old boy who died after a fight at school is laid to rest.
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Hollywood stars pay tribute to Australian actor Heath Ledger, who has been found dead in New York.
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Americans remember the victims of the 11 September 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
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The film industry salutes the legendary actor.
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Two former US presidents and five first ladies paid a final tribute Saturday to Lady Bird Johnson, remembered for her uncanny ability to calm her restless husband, former President Lyndon Johnson.
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COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France, June 6 â Beside a churning sea and an ocean of white marble crosses, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today that the United States and its European allies should honor the thousands of Americans buried here by strengthening the alliance they died defending.
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AVIGNON, France, Oct 17  - Pierre Salinger, who served as press secretary to two US presidents, has died of a heart attack near his home in southern France, and is to be buried in his native United States, his French wife said early Sunday.
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The family of Christopher Reeve will hold a private memorial service for the former &quot;Superman&quot; star on Oct. 29, his foundation said Tuesday.
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On a steamy afternoon similar to the day 10 years ago when they hugged their loved ones for the last time, relatives of the 230 people who died in a fireball aboard TWA Flight 800 gathered Monday to dedicate the final piece of a memorial to the victims and the rescuers who raced in vain to the crash site.
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LOS ANGELES  - The man is gone, but the  voice is lingering on.
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A public memorial service for late actor Heath Ledger is expected to take place in Los Angeles next week.
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About 100 family members and friends  of Christopher Reeve remembered the "Superman" actor in a  private ceremony on Tuesday at the family's Westchester County  home in Pound Ridge, New York.
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By Tom M Miller  Editor, Times-Dispatch:  With others, I was twice privileged to visit Normandy battle sites and the nearby American cemetery holding our special heroes.  Among rows of white crosses two bear gold insignias marking graves of Medal of Honorees.
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On Monday night at the Toronto International Film Festival, a hero of the blacklist era was expected to deliver some posthumous words that might finally put to rest the hunt for good guys and bad.