Funeral service scheduled for local Marine

07/13/11 FORT MILL, S.C. -- Funeral services have been scheduled for a U.S. Marine with ties to Fort Mill.Family and friends planned to have a visitation for 29-year-old Staff Sargeant Thomas Joseph Dudley Wednesday at 5 p.m. His funeral service is scheduled...

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Body of SC Marine killed in Afghanistan returns home

07/13/11 FORT MILL, S.C. --  The body of a Fort Mill Marine who was killed in Afghanistan last week returned home Wednesday. A Falcon jet carrying the casket of Thomas Joseph Dudley pulled into a hanger at Charlotte Douglas International Airport where it was met by a Marine honor guard as his family looked on. Dudley was a crew chief on a Marine helicopter that was hit by enemy fire last week in Helmand ...

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Hundreds honor fallen Fort Mill Marine

07/14/11 A Fort Mill Marine killed in Afghanistan has made his final journey home and hundreds of people lined the streets to help honor their fallen hometown hero. But as his family, friends and community gather to remember Staff Sergeant Thomas J. Dodds Dudley, a controversial church group says it plans to make an example of his funeral.

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