"Laurel - To the Western North Carolina Blue Star Mothers and the Patriot Guard Riders, for recognizing one of the county's fallen soldiers. Robert Roberts is a Henderson County native who was killed in 2003 in Baghdad in a Jeep accident. But because his hometown was listed as Orlando, Fla., his name was left off when North Carolina remembered its war dead. The Blue Star Mothers and the Riders decided to correct the oversight. Last Saturday, they presented Roberts' mother, Joanne Norman, with a gold star, symbolic of a fallen soldier. They also recognized Norman's other son, Christopher, who also served in Iraq in 2003 as a Marine. Norman's husband Charles helped coordinate the event."
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