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Soldier returns for final rest

Feb-19-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

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By PAUL GRONDAHL, Staff writer

Army Sgt. Thomas D. Robbins, a 1994 Bethlehem High School graduate who died in Iraq, was laid to rest Wednesday amid the snowy fields of Saratoga National Cemetery.

It would have been his 28th birthday.

The flag-draped casket was borne by Army soldiers from Fort Drum and Fort Lewis, Wash. The private burial was conducted with full military honors under a windless, azure sky.

In a morning service at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Colonie, Joseph Robbins called his late brother "a noble soldier fallen. ... His spirit is home."


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