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The body of Lieutenant Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi is respectfully conveyed by military officers to its final resting place, January 28, 1967. Nearly six months after his assassination during the counter-coup of July 29, 1966, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi, the first military governor of Western Nigeria, was finally laid to rest with full military honors. Fajuyi was killed alongside Nigeria's Head of State, Major General Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi. Both men were abducted in

Lest We Forget... US Army Lieutenant Colonel Jaimie Leonard was commissioned as an officer with the 10th Mountain Division. She deployed to Bosnia in 1999, to Iraq in 2005 and Afghanistan in 2011 returning there in 2013. On June 8, 2013, while serving in Paktika Province, Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom she and two other Americans were killed by insurgents dressed in Afghan National Army uniforms. Through her 16 years in the Army, Leonard earned three Bronze Stars two Meritorio