By Dave Anderson
The Monadnock Ledger-Transcript staff
MONADNOCK, Mass. — A U.S. Marine who grew up in Greenfield was killed Friday morning in Afghanistan, just one year after he proudly graduated from ConVal High School while wearing a Marine Corps T-shirt under his graduation robe.
Brandon Garabrant, 19, died in a roadside bombing, along with two others and a military canine.
Garabrant’s mother, Jessie Garabrant of Rindge, said Saturday that she had been informed of her son’s death by two Marines on Friday. She said Brandon, who held the rank of lance corporal, had been deployed to Afghanistan in April. He had completed combat engineering training and had been assigned to duty on convoys that sweep roads for mines.
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