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Colorado Funeral Set For Fallen Marine

Oglala Sioux Tribe Member Killed In Iraq

POSTED: 4:59 am MST January 13, 2006

Flags in South Dakota flew half staff Friday in memory of a Marine killed in Iraq.

The funeral for Cpl. Brett Lundstrom, 22, was scheduled next Wednesday in Colorado.

Lundstrom and four other members of the North Carolina-based Second Marine Expeditionary Force were on a combat mission when they were attacked on Jan. 7.

Lundstrom was born in South Dakota and was an Oglala Sioux Tribe member. He attended high school in Virginia.

"He was very proud to be a Marine. Like any other kid, he had his worries, too, but he knew he had a job to do. Here's a kid that didn't ask why," said his father, Joe Lundstrom. "He believed in what they were doing. He loved doing what they were doing, and he died doing it. He made the ultimate sacrifice. He's a hero in my eyes."

His mother is from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where wake services will take place Saturday and Sunday.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Horan & McConaty Funeral Home in Denver, with a 7 p.m. rosary service. A funeral Mass will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Northglenn, Colo. Burial will be in the Fort Logan National Cemetery, with military honors by the Marine Corps.

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