ALDEN, NY — Mourners overflowed a church in western New York on Veterans Day to pay tribute to a US Army reservist killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
The funeral for Sgt. Brett Gornewicz, 27, of Alden, 20 miles east of Buffalo, was standing room only at St. John’s Roman Catholic Church, with friends and relatives spilling out the door.
Gornewicz and Staff Sgt. Dain Venne, of upstate Port Henry, 29, and Spc. Ryan Jayne, 22, of nearby Campbell Hall, NY, were killed in Paktiya province on Nov. 3.