Next week's Patriot Guard Ride is to North Branch

Minnesota Marine wounded in Iraq dies
"His goal as a kid was to serve in the military," Marjorie Benson said Sunday from Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas, where she and her husband, Steve, were making funeral arrangements for their 21-year-old son. "Even lying in the bed the Marines here asked him, 'Are you a Marine?' He said, 'Yes sir, I'm still a Marine. I want to go back over."