Soldiers Share Arlington Grave

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Hilary Meunier, right with hand on heart, the mother of Spc. Byron W. Fouty, and Yaderlin Jimenez, left sunglasses holding arm, the widow of Staff Sgt. Alex R. Jimenez, watch the casket containing the remains of Jimenez and Fouty being carried during a joint burial service at Arlington National Cemetery on Feb. 17.


Soldiers Share Arlington Grave

Indistinguishable remains of fallen soldiers who died together placed in one coffin
By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Mar 1, 2009 13:09:53 EST

Maria Duran said she could feel her son’s remains just by looking at the closed coffin in front of her.

She knew there were only a few pieces, but she wanted to see them anyway.

“I didn’t count them; they were all dried up,” Duran said quietly in a recent phone interview from her home town of Navarrete in the Dominican Republic, recalling the day in July 2008 when she received what was left of her son, Staff Sgt. Alex Jimenez.

Jimenez and Spc. Byron Fouty went missing May 12, 2007, southwest of Baghdad after an ambush attack in which five other soldiers with 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, were killed.

For 14 months, only small clues surfaced. Their identification cards were found more than 80 miles north of the ambush site, and a weapon belonging to Jimenez was found south of Baghdad.

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