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Week 14: Monuments -- Korenewsky

Submitted by ggevalt on January 23, 2007 - 11:40.

A momument for Michael Briggs
By Ashley Korenewsky
Dummerston School, Grade 8

Michael BriggsMichael BriggsMichael Briggs, a Manchester, N.H., police officer, deserves a monument. He died in a shooting last October. He was shot in the head about 15 minutes before his shift was over. Michael was a city policeman and was 35 years old when he died. He often said he liked his work. Briggs was a bicycle patrol officer and worked the predawn hours. He said he liked working in the dark because he liked to be able to sneak around. Michael wanted to serve his country; he was doing what he wanted to do.

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