Staff Sgt. Clifford Keeney returned home Friday, Nov. 28.
A U.S. Army honor guard carried the casket containing his remains to his grave in Christ Church Cemetery in Jacobus. A small group of mourners, family, friends and veterans gathered at the cemetery in the frigid wind at noon to pay their final respects to Keeney. A rifle salute echoed through the valley. Taps played mournfully, muted by the wind.
Keeney’s niece, Bonnie McClure, sat graveside, shielded from the cold in the blue tent erected by the funeral home…