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Earlier this month, the Key Peninsula got its first Blue Star Memorial Marker.
It was first unveiled at the Bay Shore Garden Club's 60th anniversary celebration, in which the group dedicated a memorial garden at the Longbranch Fire Department.
Here is an e-mail Cheryl Ozbirn sent to The News Tribune on June 15 (She also sent us this picture of the memorial to the right):
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray will stop in Gig Harbor tomorrow to discuss the national shortage of nurses.
Her office sent out a press release if you want to attend:
Sen. Murray will hold a news conference at St. Anthony Hospital in Gig Harbor to bring further attention to the local and national shortage of nurses and other critical health care workers.
She will also discuss her efforts to include federal funding in national health care reform legislation that will address workforce issues of tomorrow. As access to health care is broadened through national health care reform, even more nurses and other health care workers will be needed locally and across the nation in the future.
The body of Lt. Brian Bradshaw, 24, of Steilacoom, who died June 18 in in Kheyl, Afghanistan, will come home Wednesday to Fort Lewis.
Paul Bradshaw said his son will be flown to Gray Army Air Field from Dover Air Force Base. His parents flew to the air base to be there when their son was returned to the United States.
A funeral service is scheduled for Monday at 11 a.m. at St. John Bosco Catholic Church, 10508 112th St. SW, in Lakewood. There will be a reception at the church and burial will follow later in the afternoon at Tahoma National Cemetery. The public is invited.
Bradshaw was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division in Fort Richardson, Alaska.
He died when an improvised bomb went off near him.
His unit deployed in stages to Afghanistan beginning in February and Bradshaw arrived in March.
Bradshaw is the first Pierce County service member to die in Afghanistan in more than a year. The last local casualty of that war, Marine Sgt. Michael Washington of Tacoma, was killed in a bombing of his vehicle on June 14, 2008.
The New Tacoma Cemetery and Funeral Home in University Place is handling funeral arrangements.
Mike Archbold: The News Tribune
