Hometown honors Conn. SEAL killed in Afghanistan

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - A Navy SEAL who was killed last summer in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan has been honored at his high school in Stamford.

Brian Bill, who was one of 30 Americans and eight Afghans killed on Aug. 6 when the Taliban shot down their helicopter, was remembered Saturday when the North Stamford Exchange Club unveiled a Freedom Shrine. The memorial is a series of historical U.S. documents and texts mounted on plaques, in the hallway wall off of Trinity Catholic High School's front lobby.

Connecticut Hearst Newspapers report that the club dedicated the shrine to Bill, a Stamford native who died at age 31.

The exhibit includes national texts ranging from the Declaration of Independence to Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963.