Hundreds honor wounded Marine

Hundreds honor wounded Marine
Sunday, April 04, 2010
By MICHAEL McAULIFFE
mmcauliffe@repub.com
HOLYOKE - In big letters, on a queen-sized bed sheet, was spray-painted the message Dennis S. Marini and his 12-year-old daughter, Kylie Kuhn, wanted Joshua J. Bouchard to see Saturday afternoon: "Welcome Home Josh! We Love You."

Hundreds of people who gathered along Beech Street and in the parking lot of the Anne H. McHugh Educational Center appeared to feel the same way.

The throng, which included Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Murray, were there to honor the 27-year-old Bouchard, a Marine Corps sergeant who had lost his left leg, broken his right arm, and had part of his spine crushed in an explosion in Afghanistan in July.
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Hundreds honor wounded Marine