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The final salute to a fallen soldier Friday, Aug. 4, 2006
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Staff Photo by Reid Silverman
With family, friends and others watching in silence, a U.S. Army Casket Team carries the body of Cpl. Matthew Wallace across the lawn at Arlington National Cemetery to his gravesite Wednesday morning.
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Staff Photo by Paul C. Leibe
Seventy-five local motorcyclists, a group organized by the Maryland Patriot Guard, gathered together in Leonardtown on Wednesday morning and rode together as part of Wallace’s funeral procession from Leonardtown to Arlington National Cemetery.
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Staff Photo by Reid Silverman
At the conclusion of Wednesday’s funeral, Maj. Gen. Stephen Reeves presents an American flag to Mary Wallace, the mother of the fallen soldier. The flag had draped across her son’s casket as it was brought to the gravesite.
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The funeral for U.S. Army Cpl. Matthew Wallace was held Wednesday. The 22-year-old Lexington Park resident was wounded in Iraq on July 16 and died a few days later at a hospital in Germany. Wallace was the 254th person killed in Iraq to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery and the 50th Marylander to die in the war.
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