JOSEPH RODRIGUEZ/GREENSBORO NEWS AND RECORD - Army Specialist David Hickman’s unit, the 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry from Fort Bragg, performed honor guard duties for his burial at Lakeview Memorial Park on Nov. 26, 2011, in Greensboro, N.C.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. — To find Army Spec. David Emanuel Hickman on the morning after his unit returned to Fort Bragg from Iraq, you had to drive 100 miles north, to his home town. Up Highway 29, less than two clicks from the northeast Greensboro cul-de-sac where he grew up, Hickman was in Lot 54 in the Garden of Peace at Lakeview Memorial Park Cemetery.
Freshly turned red soil covered his coffin, which went into the ground two weeks and a day before he was due home. There were two shriveled carnations on the damp dirt. There was no marker yet, no indication that this was a soldier’s grave.
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