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Apologies to email subscribers to my blog, who kind of got spammed Sunday when I was trying to update my blog post about the cheeseburger salutes to my nephew, Brandon Buttry. Brandon was supposed to come home to Fort Lewis, Wash., Friday, but he was killed in Afghanistan Nov. 5. The meal he wanted to celebrate his return with was a cheeseburger, fries and a large Coke. Facing a difficult day on Friday, Brandon’s parents, Don and Pam, asked friends and family to remember Brandon with a cheeseburger, fries and a large Coke. Brandon’s sister, Missy, and I passed the request along on Facebook and more than 100 family, friends and strangers who were touched by Brandon’s story and honored his service joined in the salute, which we continued through the weekend.
Storify was not updating the version of the first post on my blog. I did the first few updates by cutting and pasting from new posts into the original post, which worked OK, though it sent out new email notices each time to my blog subscribers. That was bad enough, but then Sunday Storify was giving me error messages and telling me to try again, which I did, but it was really posting multiple error messages to my blog. So I’m doing one last update here in a separate post. If you continue the salute this week, post it to my Facebook wall or tweet me (@stevebuttry), and I will share your salutes there, but this is the last group of salutes I will compile on Storify and my blog. -
We start with Sonya Sorich, who has saluted Brandon before.
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Here’s where we’ve seen that bib before.
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Sonya (who had never met anyone from the family before) wrote a column about running that Half-Marathon (outside Fort Benning, where Brandon went to boot camp).
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Sonya Sorich: Honoring Pfc. Brandon Buttry and … – Ledger-EnquirerNov 13, 2012 … The folded piece of paper sits in a zipped pocket of my purse. Open it and you’ll see prominent bold writing: Pfc….0
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Several others have also saluted Brandon since my last update:
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Cheeseburger for Brandon with @AlbertYuravich in #Bethany – @stevebuttry http://lockerz.com/s/264289559
— Viktoria Sundqvist (@vsundqvist)
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Had cheeseburgers, fries and a coke last night for dinner. Didn’t get a picture though. Fast food takes on a new meaning now.0
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And the salutes will continue into this week:
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Johnny Wells II and I will be saluting on Tuesday when he is off with some home ground beef burgers on the grill. As close to Iowa as we could get…by grinding it ourselves.0
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Some of the media in and near Brandon’s hometown have taken note of the salute:
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Slain soldier gets ‘cheeseburger salute’SHENANDOAH, Iowa – Brandon Buttry knew just what he wanted to celebrate his homecoming: a cheeseburger, fries and a large Coke. The 19-ye…0
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