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Final farewell to LI soldier killed in Afghanistan

Staff Sgt. Keith Bishop, who died last month in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, was buried Monday with full military honors in the bright sunshine of a crisp autumn afternoon on eastern Long Island.

At Bishop's funeral at the United Methodist Church in Patchogue, his father recalled a son he playfully wrestled with in their Medford living room. A next-door neighbor described a fun-loving...

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