CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WVDN) – U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, a military police officer with the 863rd Military Police Company, West Virginia Army National Guard, was laid to rest with full military honors during a ceremony and interment Tuesday at the West Virginia National Cemetery in Grafton, West Virginia.

Beckstrom, 20, died Nov. 27, 2025, after she was fatally wounded in the line of duty in a shooting attack the previous day near the Farragut Square Metro Station in Washington, D.C.

“As you look across these hills and out onto the rows of headstones, each stone a brick to the foundation of freedom upon which we stand today, I encourage you to remember this,” said 111th Engineer Brigade Chaplain (Maj.) Christopher Bennett, as he presided over the ceremony. “No plots in the West Virgini

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