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The Honolulu Advertiser
Updated at 3:20 p.m., Monday, July 21, 2008

Funeral services Thursday for fallen Hawaii soldier

Advertiser Staff

Funeral services for 1st Lt. Jonathan Brostrom of 'Aiea will be Thursday at Holy Family Parish church in Honolulu, the Army announced this morning.

Visitation will be begin at 8:30 a.m. followed by Mass from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Following Mass, at approximately 11 a.m., an Honors ceremony and burial will take place at the Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery in Kane'ohe.

All services are open to the public.

The family has designated two charitable foundations in Brostrom's honor: The Jonathan Brostrom Scholarship through the Hawaii Chapter of Military Officers Association of America, P.O. Box 1185, Kailua, HI., and the Fisher Foundation (fisherhouse.org).

Brostrom, 24, is a 2002 Damien Memorial and University of Hawai'i graduate. He was one of nine soldiers killed in Afghanistan in early July.

The Department of Defense said they were killed by small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades on July 13 during a Taliban attack on their outpost in Wanat, a village near the Pakistan border.

The soldiers are assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne), 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, based in Vicenza, Italy.