Fallen Marine buried with dignity, respect (Adam Galvez)

Parents Tony and Amy Galvez comfort one another after receiving their son's flag.

MURRAY - Bruce Clements stood at the center of a motley group of motorcyclists, cigarette clasped between the knuckles of his hand, and choked through an emotional salute to his fellow riders.

Most of those assembled in the hardware store parking lot hadn't ridden with Clements before. And many didn't know they were going to ride with the white-bearded ride captain until early that same morning.

That's when the riders, checking e-mail accounts and home answering machines, learned that an extremist Christian sect had promised to protest at Wednesday's funeral for Adam Galvez, who was killed in Iraq on Aug. 20 when a roadside bomb exploded near his Humvee in the Al Anbar province.

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