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KEN EXUM/The Register-Mail

Well-wishers hold candles and flags as motorcycles escorting the hearse carrying Pfc. Caleb Lufkin move through the square Tuesday night in Knoxville.

Update: Caleb comes home

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

The Register-Mail

Hundreds lined the streets of Galesburg and Knoxville late Tuesday night for the return of Pfc. Caleb Lufkin, the Knoxville soldier who died Thursday during surgery to fix injuries he received May 4 when the vehicle he was in struck a roadside bomb in Iraq.

KENT KRIEGSHAUSER/The Register-Mail

Tammy Lufkin, father of Caleb Lufkin, gets a hug from a well-wisher after a ceremony honring Caleb at Hinchliff-Pearson-West Funeral Home in Galesburg Tuesday night. Caleb died during surgery last week after receiving injuries in Iraq.

Lufkin arrived at Hinchliff-Pearson-West Funeral Home in Galesburg shortly before midnight in a motorcade that included motorcycles, police cars, fire trucks and ambulances. The procession traveled from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago to Galesburg, passing through Knoxville and East Galesburg on the way.

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