
Rosemount soldier’s heart recipient dies 15 years later. ‘It felt like Ben died all over again,’ his mother says.
The heart of a hero is no longer beating. In July 2009, Judy Meikle, at age 57 and of Winnetka, Ill., received the heart of Benjamin Kopp, a 21-year-old Army Ranger corporal from Rosemount who died eight days after being shot during a combat operation in …