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Parkland Teen Killed Saving Lives Gets Funeral Fit for Army Hero

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Peter Wang, 15, was buried with military honors. He wasn’t killed in a foreign war, he was murdered in an American high school.

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CORAL SPRINGS, Florida—Peter Wang’s dream was to go to West Point, but before he could be a soldier he laid down his life as a hero.

Wang, 15, was a cadet in the U.S.

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