During a ceremony at the Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Timonium the relatives of Army Sgt. Maj. Wardell Turner gathered to pay tribute during this week’s Memorial Day.
He was killed in Afghanistan last November.
Democratic Representative Dutch Ruppersberger told the Salisbury Daily Times that families like the Turners feel an absence that one can imagine.
The 48-year old Turner was from Nanticoke.
And he was the only Maryland soldier to die in the field in the past year.
A vehicle-born improvised explosive device killed Turner and another soldier while they were in their vehicle.
He had been planning on retiring retirement after this last assignment.
