By Will Higgins
The Indianapolis Star
INDIANAPOLIS — Firefighters and soldiers gathered at a Downtown fire station today to remember their colleague Gary Henry, who was killed in Iraq Monday. He was a sergeant in the Indiana National Guard, riding in a vehicle that was blown up by a roadside bomb.
Another Hoosier soldier, Jonathan Menke of Madison, was killed in the explosion and a third, John Blickenstaff of Twelve Point, was badly injured.
About a dozen of Henry’s family members, including his mother, Marajo Castor, attended the event at the fire house. “There couldn’t be a mother more proud of her son,” she said, after hearing testimonials to her son’s competency and can-do spirit.
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