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Pawlenty orders flags lowered to honor Minn. soldiers

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Daniel Drevnick
Daniel Drevnick of Woodbury, a member of the 34th Infantry Division, a unit of the Minnesota National Guard, was reportedly killed in Iraq on Thursday, July 16, 2009.
Photo via Facebook profile

Gov. Tim Pawlenty is ordering flags at the state Capitol complex lowered to half-staff to honor two Minnesota soldiers killed in Iraq.

Pawlenty ordered flags lowered Saturday to remember Spc. Daniel Drevnick of Woodbury. Drevnick's funeral is Saturday in Woodbury, with burial at Fort Snelling National Cemetery.

The governor also ordered flags lowered on Monday. That's the day a funeral Mass will be held in Bird Island for Spc. James Wertish of rural Olivia.

Wertish and Drevnick were among three Minnesota National Guardsmen killed by an insurgent attack July 16 in Basra.

The funeral for the third soldier - Spc. Carlos Wilcox IV of Cottage Grove - is scheduled Tuesday in Louisville, Ky. Pawlenty will later order flags lowered in Wilcox's memory.

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Daniel Drevnick
Daniel Drevnick of Woodbury, a member of the 34th Infantry Division, a unit of the Minnesota National Guard, was reportedly killed in Iraq on Thursday, July 16, 2009.
Photo via Facebook profile
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Carlos Wilcox
Spc. Carlos E. Wilcox IV, 27, of Cottage Grove, died Thursday in Basra, Iraq, after an insurgent attack. He was assigned to the Stillwater-based 34th Military Police Company, part of the National Guard's 34th Red Bull Infantry Division.
Photo courtesy of the Minnesota National Guard