State flags lower Thursday for dead Tacoma soldier

By Associated Press Published: Jan 31, 2012 at 11:34 AM PDT
State flags lower Thursday for dead Tacoma soldier
Funeral workers open the casket bearing the body of U.S. Army Pvt. Neil Isaac Turner for viewing at a service Monday, Jan. 30, 2012, in Tacoma, Wash. Turner was killed Jan. 11, 2012, in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Chris Gregoire has directed that flags at state buildings be lowered to half-staff Thursday in memory of a Tacoma soldier who died in Afghanistan.

Twenty-one-year-old Pfc. Neil I. Turner died Jan. 11 of injuries from a training accident. He was assigned to a unit from Fort Bliss, Texas.
 
Flags are lower Tuesday in memory of Marine Capt. Daniel Bartle of Ferndale who died Jan. 19 in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.