Traverse City Record-Eagle

July 21, 2010

Local Marine killed in Afghanistan

BY SHERI McWHIRTER
smcwhirter@record-eagle.com

---- — Traverse City — A Benzie County Marine died in Afghanistan.

Cpl. Paul James Miller, 22, died in a bomb explosion on Monday. The U.S. Department of Defense has yet to release more details about his death.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars Cherryland Post in Traverse City confirmed the family contacted them and they will hold a memorial service.

"It's another comrade who died and it's too bad," said Doug Jordan, post Quarter Master and a retired Marine. "We're a small branch of the services and when you lose one, it affects all Marines."

No funeral arrangements have yet been set.