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SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - Some sad news coming out of Afghanistan.
29-year-old Captain Matt Freeman from Richmond Hill was killed during Operation Enduring Freedom. The Department of Defense has not yet released the circumstances surrounding his death.
Freeman was a graduate from Richmond Hill High School and the second in his family to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy. His father also graduated from the academy and was a career naval pilot. His younger sister, Ginny, is a midshipman there.
"He was a proud Marine, doing what he wanted to do," Gary Freeman said Friday afternoon. "He was a true patriot. He loved his mother, his family and his fiancée, Theresa Hess."
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