By HEATH DRUZIN
Stars and Stripes
Published: April 23, 2012
KANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — The mission goes on. Outside a hangar full of mourners here Monday, the buzz of choppers continued unabated. There’s little time to pause during a war.
For two hours, though, hundreds of soldiers got a chance to say goodbye.
They filled the seats inside and spilled out of the fabric clamshell structure in a crowd stretching close to the flight line, bowing their heads in prayer and tears to remember four soldiers killed Thursday in a helicopter crash in Helmand province.
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Nicholas Johnson, 27, San Diego
Spc. Dean Shaffer, 23, Pekin, Ill.
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Don Viray, 25, Waipahu, Hawaii
Spc. Chris Workman, 33, Boise, Idaho.
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