Leaf Chronicle
Written by Shawn Cohen
The (Westchester County, N.Y.) Journal News
Jan. 20, 2014
CORTLANDT, N.Y. — The member of an elite U.S. Army helicopter unit who was killed last week in a Blackhawk helicopter training accident in Savannah, Ga., will be laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery after family and friends gather for a funeral expected to be held in New York on Saturday.
"We have lost not only a member of our church, but a gifted young man many of us thought would become a great leader and a national treasure," said Pastor Jacob Dharmaraj of Shrub Oak United Methodist Church, where Army Capt. Clayton Carpenter was active as a child and continued to attend services as an adult in his military uniform.
His death during a training exercise, stateside, came as a particular shock because Carpenter had survived tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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