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MD Flags Half Staff for Capt. Sara Knutsen Cullen

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Flags in Maryland are flying at half-staff in honor of an Army helicopter pilot killed in a crash in Afghanistan.

U.S. flags and Maryland flags are flying at half-staff Monday in honor of 27-year-old Capt. Sara M. Knutson Cullen of Eldersburg. She is being buried Monday at Arlington National Cemetery.

The helicopter pilot was among five crew members killed when their UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed March 11 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. She was a 2007 West Point graduate and a 2003 graduate of Liberty High School.

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