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Service Member from Monticello Killed in Afghanistan

A 27-year-old Special Forces soldier from Monticello, Utah, was killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday. The Deseret News reports that Army Staff Sergeant Aaron Butler died when he and a group of Utah National Guardsmen were clearing a booby-trapped building and a bomb went off. The 11 other soldiers all sustained injuries. Butler was remembered at a vigil Thursday night in his home town.

Gail Binkly is a career journalist who has worked for the Colorado Springs Gazette and Cortez Journal, and was the editor of the Four Corners Free Press, based in Cortez.