Staff Sgt. Ari Cullers was just five months away from ending his eight years of service with the Army when he was killed in Afghanistan last month. On Thursday, his family gathered for his funeral.

CULLERS, SSG Ari SSG Ari Richard Cullers, age 28, of Waterford, died October 30, 2011 in Afghanistan due to injuries received. He was born in New London on March 30, 1983. He attended Clark Lane ...

A 28-year-old Waterford resident was killed in Afghanistan Sunday, becoming the third soldier from the small shoreline town to die while fighting in the Middle East since the start of the Iraq War.

A soldier from Waterford and New London was killed in action in Afghanistan on Sunday. Sgt. Ari Cullers, 28, was repairing a bulldozer in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan when he was killed in ...

PITTSBURG -- SSG Ari Richard Cullers, 28, of Waterford, Conn., paid the ultimate price fighting for our nation. He was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011, while he was ...