Sgt. Smallwood laid to rest in moving ceremony

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

As the first mournful notes of Taps echoed across the rolling meadows of Memorial Park Cemetery in Jonesboro Monday afternoon, the realization that Sgt. Erich Scott Smallwood had come to his final resting place finally hit home. Not even the 21-gun salute, executed moments before the lone bugler began to play, could elicit the emotion which the far-too-familiar tune did.

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