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Sugar Valley honors local veterans

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AMBER MORRIS/FOR THE EXPRESS

Sugar Valley honors local veterans

A new stone monument was unveiled honoring Sugar Valley Veterans of Middle East conflicts and wars who served in the United States military between 1990 and 2015. The new memorial is the result of Sugar Valley Rural Charter School 12th grade student Colden Geisewite’s senior project, Geisewite dedicated the monument to fallen Sugar Valley native, Sergeant First Class David Cooper Jr., who died September 5, 2007 in Baghdad, Iraq. Sergeant Cooper was a 1989 graduate of Sugar Valley High School. Colden (in blue) poses with Sergeant Cooper’s parents, David Sr. and Wanda, of Rauchtown, and his brother Michael with his young son, David, who is named after Sergeant Cooper (on right), in front of the new memorial. Captain Dustin Best of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard was the keynote speaker at the Sugar Valley Memorial Day services that directly followed the parade.

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