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Thursday, December 1, 2011
Hundreds attend funeral for FAMU drum major Robert Champion
DECATUR, Georgia -- Mourners filled a church in Decatur, Georgia, Wednesday for the funeral of a Florida university drum major who died this month in what officials have called a hazing-related incident.
A line of people -- some of them wearing band uniforms -- filed past Robert Champion's open casket. He was wearing his Florida A&M University Marching 100 uniform and holding a baton.
As the service began, a group of drum majors draped his coffin with the university's flag.
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