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Photos: Motorcyle escort brings fallen Staten Island soldier

Michael Ollis home

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A construction worker held his hard-hat over his heart and firefighters stood in a solemn salute
as a motorcade carrying the body of Staff Sgt. Michael H. Ollis crossed the Staten Island Expressway Wednesday
morning.

The motorcade ended at the Hanley Funeral Home in New Dorp, where Ollis' parents, Robert and Linda, were waiting
for their 24-year-old son and already greeting mourners.

At the funeral home, teary-eyed service members dressed in fatigues and dress blues embraced Ollis' family.

As his flag-draped casket was removed from a white hearse, they fell in line -- along with NYPD officers and firefighters
-- and rendered a salute to their brother-in-arms.

A prayer was said over Ollis' casket before it was carried into the funeral home.

Ollis -- the grandson of World War II veterans and the son of a Vietnam veteran -- was killed in an insurgent attack in
Afghanistan on Aug. 28.

Visiting hours are Thursday and Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m., and the funeral mass will be Saturday at 10:30
a.m. in Our Lady Queen of Peace R.C. Church, New Dorp.

Ollis will be buried in the veterans section of Resurrection Cemetery, Pleasant Plains.