Headstone now posted at Arlington National Cemetery for fallen East Tennessee soldier

The family of fallen US serviceman Ryan Knauss has reported that the soldier’s headstone has been erected at Arlington National Cemetery.

The East Tennessee native and US Army Staff Sergeant was laid to rest in September following his death in August along with 11 other soldiers in Kabul, Afghanistan in a suicide bombing.

Knauss and his fellow Army brethren have been honored around the US and have been posthumously honored with a Congressional Gold Medal.

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