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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 24 > Honoring a hero

Honoring a hero

Memorial to Pfc. Thomas Tucker is unveiled in Madras

By Erin Golden / The Bulletin
August 24, 2009

Dressed in combat fatigues, his arm outstretched to a young Iraqi girl crouching on a ledge above him, the bronze statue shows Pfc. Thomas Tucker poised to lend a helping hand in the middle of a war zone.

The statue, unveiled Sunday in a ceremony at Madras' Friendship Park, is a memorial to the....

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