MOUNDSVILLE — A fallen soldier is back home.
Twenty-five-year-old Spec. Julian Berisford of Benwood died Nov. 4 after an attack in Afghanistan.
His body was flown back to the Wheeling-Ohio County Airport on Thursday.
Thousands of people turned out, many standing along Route 2 from Wheeling to Moundsville with flags to honor the 2002 graduate of John Marshall High School.
Some were students who had left their classrooms.
Berisford is survived by a wife and an 11-month-old daughter. He’d been married less than three years.
Berisford joined the Army in February 2007 and became a specialist in the 509th Infantry.
He was deployed to Afghanistan in March, and he was serving his first tour of duty when he was killed.
