Homecoming

Sergeant Richard L. Ford is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetary.

On a day of blue skies and boisterous winds that hinted of spring, Ford became the 314th service member killed in the Iraq war to be buried at Arlington. Ford, of East Hartford, Conn., died Feb. 20 in Baghdad from combat wounds. He was 40 years old and on his third tour of duty in Iraq.

Godspeed, Sergeant Ford.