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The Coming Home Project was launched by WNPR's Lucy Nalpathanchil in 2011 to tell the stories of veterans in transition and the issues that matter to them and their families.

Army Captain Andrew Pedersen-Keel: A Remembrance

Courtesy of Helen Pedersen Keiser

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On Thursday, May 23, the photo of U.S Army Captain Andrew Pedersen-Keel will be added to the State of Connecticut's Wall of Honor, a tribute to servicemembers who died while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

Pedersen-Keel was killed March 11 in what the military calls a green on blue attack.
An Afghan policeman shot him and another Special Forces soldier and wounded several others.
 
WNPR's Lucy Nalpathanchil sat down with Pedersen-Keel’s mother, Helen, who tells us in her own words about her son. 
 
Click on the audio link to hear Helen Pedersen-Keiser.
 

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