Summary

FAMILY AND FRIENDS IN CHESHIRE REMEMBER THE MAN KILLED BY FRIENDLY FIRE IN AFGHANISTAN.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 219531
Story Slug Cheshire casualty
Location Cheshire, Massachusetts
Format PKG
Date 12/6/2001
Archive Time 37:39
TRT 1:41
Supers Cheshire, Massachusetts Pam Cross, Reporting
Video Description FLAG WAVING. SOT MAN. PEOPLE DRIVING IN TOWN. YEARBOOK PHOTOS. SOT MAN. FLAG. PHOTO. SOT MAN. PEOPLE SPEAKING. PHOTO. SOT MAN. REPORTER SU.
Description FAMILY AND FRIENDS IN CHESHIRE REMEMBER THE MAN KILLED BY FRIENDLY FIRE IN AFGHANISTAN.
Script CHESHIRE MASSACHUSETTS IS A TOWN DRAPED IN PRIDE AND PAIN. PATRIOTIC ABOUT AMERICA, RESIDENTS KNOW FIRST HAND WHAT HEROISM CAN COST. (SOT- "There's thousands of people that have gone through what I'm going through and my family has gone through the past couple of months and that's what makes us as Americans strong and proud, we get through these things, we rise up and through adversity, champions rise.") DAN PETITHORY GREW UP IN THE SHADOW OF MOUNT BRALOCK, THE THIRTY TWO YEAR OLD GREEN BERET WAS KILLED BY WHAT MOST WOULD CALL FRIENDLY FIRE. AN ERRENT U-S BOMB KILLED THREE AMERICAN SERVICEMEN AND WOUNDING TWO DOZEN. A HIGH SCHOOL BUDDY, SHOWN HERE WITH LONG HERE DESCRIBED HIM AS INTENSE ABOUT MARSHAL ARTS, A FAN OF WAR GAMES BUT OUTGOING TO ALL. (SOT- "He was the type of person who was everyone's friend, while he had close friends, but like I said. he was everyone's friend, everyone knew of him and everyone liked him a lot.") THE FLAG IS LOWERED AT COOSICK VALLEY HIGH, WHERE A TEACHER REMEMBERS HIS FORMER STUDENT. (SOT- "He had a dream, he wanted to do something with the military, he wanted to do something along that line. He was gonna follow that dream, he had that very early on.") HIS BROTHER SAYS DAN WAS LIGHT HEARTED, JOKED AROUND BUT HE WAS SERIOUS ABOUT HIS CAREER IN THE MILITARY. (SOT- "He was a fighter, he had the heart of a lion and that's the way I feel about him, that's what he lived for.") TOWN OFFICIALS SAY A MEMORIAL WILL BE HELD HERE AFTER DAN PETITHORY REMAINS ARE RETRIEVED HERE AT HIS HOME TOWN. A TRIBUTE TO ONE'S CAREER WAS DEDICATED TO SERVING AMERICA. IN CHESHIRE, IM PAM CROSS, NEWS CHANNEL 5.
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