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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- It was a bittersweet reunion twelve years in the making, but Joseph David deMoors' last wish has come true.
The 36-year-old U-S Army lieutenant and former Utahn was killed in Iraq in January. He was buried at Fort Mitchell National Cemetery in Alabama.
What he wanted, however, was to be buried with his infant son, Gabriel, who died at 3 months in Salt Lake City in 1994.
But Gabriel was interred in Salt Lake City and the family, who now lives in Georgia, didn't have the funds to move his body.
That's when the Patriot Guard Riders stepped in. The 50-thousand-member support group for military families raised five-thousand-dollars to get Gabriel's coffin transferred.
Yesterday, the infant was reburied alongside his father.
Family friend Chip Oehring says the deMoors family wasn't sad. He says they feel the reunion of father and son is a time of celebration.
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