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Mon 11 Nov 2009Irish US army dead honoured at Knocknagoshel ceremony
MORE THAN 100 people gathered at the hilltop village of Knocknagoshel on the Kerry-Limerick border at the weekend, to honour 10 of its citizens who served as US soldiers in wars spanning the first World War to Vietnam and who are buried in the small village cemetery.
The ceremony, which included a Mass followed by trooping of the colours at the tiny graveyard at Knockane, was attended by the US defence attache to Ireland, Lieut Col Shawn Purvis, the American Legion veterans’ organisation, as well the Irish Organisation Of National Ex-Servicemen/women.
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