Thousands Pay Tribute to Fallen Soldier
By: Michael C. Fehn
Updated: July 30, 2012
Thousands of people have turned out to pay tribute to an Indiana National Guardsman killed in Afghanistan.
The body of Specialist Nicholas Taylor arrived Sunday afternoon at the 122nd Air National Guard base in Fort Wayne.
Thousands of motorcycles joined a police escort on a 30-mile route to the funeral home.
Taylor's funeral will be held Tuesday. Taylor, and Specialist Sergio Eduardo Perez Jr., of Crown Point, died in a July 16th attack in Kandahar Province. They were members of a bomb-clearing unit from the Valparaiso-based 713th Engineer Company.
The body of Specialist Nicholas Taylor arrived Sunday afternoon at the 122nd Air National Guard base in Fort Wayne.
Thousands of motorcycles joined a police escort on a 30-mile route to the funeral home.
Taylor's funeral will be held Tuesday. Taylor, and Specialist Sergio Eduardo Perez Jr., of Crown Point, died in a July 16th attack in Kandahar Province. They were members of a bomb-clearing unit from the Valparaiso-based 713th Engineer Company.
