Hundreds of people said their final goodbyes to Army Pfc. Patrick DeVoe at St. Mary's Church in Auburn this morning.DeVoe died in a roadside bomb explosion in Afghanistan on March 8. He was 27 years old.
"It's a tremendous sense of loss," said John Ryan of the National Veterans Organization. "Regardless of ages or time periods that we serve in or even the military branch of service we serve in, all veterans are brothers."
DeVoe joined the Army last year. He had been in Afghanistan for less than a month when he was killed.
"You just never think it's going to be the boy next door," said Ron Podolak. "But, he made the ultimate sacrifice for our country, and I'm proud of Pat."
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