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Rockford, Ia. - Jon Thomas
Tumilson wrote a class paper when he was 15 about how he wanted to spend
the next 20 years as a Navy SEAL, an elite member of the U.S. armed
forces.
On Friday, an estimated 1,500 mourners paid their last respects to Petty
Officer Tumilson, a Navy SEAL whose helicopter was shot down in
Afghanistan on Aug. 6, about 20 years after Tumilson wrote that paper.
He was 35 when he died in one of the deadliest attacks on U.S. forces in
the decade-old U.S. deployment to Afghanistan.
"J.T. was going to be a Navy SEAL come hell or
high water," friend Scott Nichols said of Tumilson, who was born in
Osage on July 1, 1976, the nation's bicentennial year, and grew up in
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