Salem Medic Killed In Afghanistan Returns Home
SALEM (CBS/AP) - An Army medic from Salem killed in Afghanistan came home for the final time Friday.
The body of 25-year-old Sgt. James Ayube was flown from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford.
WBZ News Radio 1030's Doug Cope reports
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A motorcade with his family brought Sgt. Ayube back to Salem for a wake at St. James Church.
WBZ-TV's Sera Congi reports
A funeral Mass will be held there Saturday at 11 a.m. followed by burial with full military honors in Harmony Grove Cemetery.
Ayube was one of two soldiers killed by a suicide bomber December 8 while on patrol in Balkh Province.
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