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ABCNEWS VideoSource
US Homefront - Funerals, memorials and reunions
04/12/2003
APTN
VSAP369401
TAPE: EF03/0338 IN_TIME: 01:03:45 DURATION: 2:34 SOURCES: ABC RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Various 11 April 2003 SHOTLIST: Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas 1. Wide shot inside memorial service 2. Mid shot people being seated 3. Mid pan of photos and helmets of dead soldiers 4. Wide shot memorial service from rear of room 5. Mid shot from side of helmets on rifles representing dead soldiers, pan to speaker at podium 6. Mid shot speaker at podium 7. Close up pan from photo and helmet of one soldier to another Santa Maria, California 8. Mid shot Marines carrying casket 9. Close up Marine's face 10. Close up woman wiping tears from her eyes, then close up of Marine's face 11. Close up wife and son of killed Marine 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Stacy Menusa, Killed Marine's wife: "He was saying to his cousins, my daddy died in the war, but I never talked to him about war or death (COVER VIDEO of funeral through end of bite) or dying, you know, he broke my heart just seeing him in tears and wanting his daddy to be here for us, and I think that he knows he's not coming back though." 13. Mid shot bugle player 14. Close up dead Marine's mother crying 15. Close up Marine placing gloves on casket 16. Mid shot brother of dead Marine saluting casket Virginia Beach, Virginia 17. Wide shot Navy ship at dock 18. Mid shot girls waving at ship 19. Close shot boy dressed as sailor waving U.S. flag 20. Mid shot sailors coming down off ship 21. Various of sailors hugging their families STORYLINE: Army officials Friday comforted families of the Texas-based 507th Maintenance Company members killed in an ambush in Iraq. At a memorial service, empty helmets placed on M-16 rifles stood in front of smiling photos of nine members of the 507th. On the upper right hand corner of each picture frame was draped a posthumously awarded Purple Heart. In California a Marine who was granted U.S. citizenship after he was killed in an Iraqi ambush was buried Friday with military honors. A bugler played "Taps" and a 21-gun salute accompanied the burial of Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Menusa, 33, at Santa Maria Cemetery in his wife's hometown. Menusa was born in the Philippines but immigrated when he was 10 and grew up in San Jose. A combat engineer assigned to secure oil fields, he was shot in the head on March 27 while accompanying an infantry unit on its first day in Iraq, family members said. Military families in Virginia also shed tears on Friday, but they were tears of joy. Hundreds of family members stood in the rain and fog Friday at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base as the first East Coast-based Navy ship returned home from the war in Iraq. People waiting for the USS Portland carried bouquets of flowers, American flags, cameras and umbrellas. They cheered as the amphibious dock landing ship pulled into view. The ship returned earlier than planned because it needs repairs in its engineering plant, said a Navy spokesperson, adding that the ship did complete its mission by delivering combat Marines and equipment from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade to Kuwait.
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