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Friday, March 24, 2006
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Mustonen creates media madness COMMENTARY Associate Editor Ritual and ceremonies predominated Friday as the remains of 22-year-old Leo Mustonen, the World War II airman whose body was discovered last October at the site of a receding glacier, were laid to rest.
The Brainerd man's body and the bodies of a pilot and two other aviation cadets rested undisturbed for more than 60 years in the Sierra Nevada mountain range until hikers found them.
Their discovery set into motion a journey that took Mustonen's remains to Hawaii for positive identification, to First Lutheran Church for a long-delayed funeral and finally to northeast Brainerd's Evergreen Cemetery where he was buried with full military honors.
The unusual circumstances that preceded Friday's funeral and burial were just odd enough to pique the interest of news media from around the world.
CNN fed a transmission of the funeral services live and the cable network briefly cut in to the services at least once. "NBC Nightly News" broadcast a story on the funeral Friday night and Twin Cities television stations broadcast live remote reports from Brainerd.
Friday's convergence of religion, patriotism and intense media coverage resulted in a few notes of discord such as the beep...beep...beep sound of the CNN truck in reverse as First Lutheran's Pastor Andy Smith spoke a few words at Leo Mustonen's grave site.
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