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November 21, 2009

Family at Dover as soldier’s body arrives

Amy Hynoski Patton welcomed her husband, U.S. Naval Petty Officer 2nd Class Brian M. Patton, home Friday night as his body was carried off of a plane by a military escort.

She said she was glad to have him home, but it was not the way she wanted to welcome him home from his tour of duty in Kuwait.

“It’s kind of a mixed feeling. I’m glad, but I wish he were actually walking off the plane instead of being brought in a transfer case,” Patton said. She and his two brothers, Robert and Scott, traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., Friday evening as his remains were flown back to the United States after he died Thursday morning in an automobile crash in Kuwait.

Patton, a military police officer, was stationed in northern Kuwait in June with the Naval Security Force from Rochester, N.Y. were he was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom.

For the complete story, see Sunday's Times Leader.

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