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YAKIMA, Wash. — Yakima police motorcycle officers on Wednesday will escort the body of a soldier killed in Afghanistan from the Yakima airport to a Zillah funeral home.
Pfc. James L. Miller, 21, died March 29 during an insurgent attack on his vehicle, according to the Department of Defense.
Miller, raised in Alaska, was married to a woman from Granger and moved to Yakima in 2008 to attend Yakima Valley Community College, his family said.
He enlisted in 2008 and was serving in the 5th Stryker Brigade out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma.
The charter jet carrying his body is expected to arrive at the Yakima airport about 10:15 a.m. Wednesday. The motorcycle officers will then escort the procession to Valley Hills Funeral Home in Zillah.
They will take 24th Avenue to Nob Hill Boulevard, continue on Nob Hill to Interstate 82, then go eastbound on the interstate to Zillah, according to a police news release.
Police say community members may observe the procession along the route.
Miller is the 11th soldier or Marine with ties to the Yakima Valley to die in the United States’ current Middle East campaigns. He is the first to die in Afghanistan.
— Mark Morey
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