SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. -- Marine Captain Jennifer Harris was buried with military honors in Swampscott today, less than two weeks after the helicopter she was piloting in Iraq was shot down.
A horse-drawn hearse carried the body to Saint John the Evangelist Church, where the 28-year-old was memorialized before burial at Swampscott Cemetery. Bagpipes played as Marines in full uniform carried the casket.
Harris was flying a Marine troop transport helicopter when it went down northwest of Baghdad on February seventh. All seven people on board were killed. An al-Qaida-linked Sunni group claimed responsibility for shooting down the helicopter, and aired a video.
Harris, a graduate of Swampscott High School, had been on her third tour in Iraq. She had been scheduled to return home the week after she was killed.
(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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