Wednesday, July 12, 2006
SAN BRUNO, Calif. - The first San Francisco soldier killed in Iraq while fighting began more than three years ago was laid to rest in a tearful ceremony Tuesday.
Family and friends gathered at Golden Gate National Cemetery, immediately south of San Francisco, to bury 21-year-old Army Cpl. Christopher D. Rose, who died late last month when a curb bomb explode during a routine patrol in Baghdad.
Rose's parents, Rudy and Margaret Rose, scattered their son's flag-draped casket with holy water as more than 100 mourners looked on.
A military honor protector fired a 21-gun salute over Rose's grave as a bugler played "Taps," its sad strains deep off the rows of identical white tombstones for fallen soldiers lining the cemetery grounds.
"We're very proud of him," said his uncle, Benito Rose of Vallejo. "He's our hero."
Family and friends gathered at Golden Gate National Cemetery, immediately south of San Francisco, to bury 21-year-old Army Cpl. Christopher D. Rose, who died late last month when a curb bomb explode during a routine patrol in Baghdad.
Rose's parents, Rudy and Margaret Rose, scattered their son's flag-draped casket with holy water as more than 100 mourners looked on.
A military honor protector fired a 21-gun salute over Rose's grave as a bugler played "Taps," its sad strains deep off the rows of identical white tombstones for fallen soldiers lining the cemetery grounds.
"We're very proud of him," said his uncle, Benito Rose of Vallejo. "He's our hero."
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