Beaver Dam Mourns it’s Second Soldier to Die in Iraq

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Funeral services for the 29th Wisconsin soldier to die in Iraq were held in Beaver Dam yesterday. Marine reservist Ryan Cantafio was killed on Thanksgiving Day by a roadside bomb south of Bagdad. He is the second Marine from Beaver Damto die in the war. More than a hundred people gathered at the Oakwood cemetery for his burial. Gil Halsted was there and prepared this report…

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