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Marching to a familiar sad refrain

Woburn police honor guard help bury N.H. chief

By Martine Powers

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 20, 2012

This was a walk they knew too well. Dark uniforms marching in lockstep as far up and down the road as they could see. Civilians standing at attention on sidewalks. A law enforcement officer, felled by a bullet, waiting to be buried. The five members of the honor guard from Woburn Police Department’s traveled to this New England hamlet for the funeral of a neighboring town’s police chief. A year and four months ago, the Woburn officers had buried one of their own.

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