NCY Firefighter, Iraq Soldier Remembered
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A New York City firefighter who responded to the 2001 World Trade Center attack and died last month serving with the Army National Guard in Iraq was remembered Thursday as "the true definition of a hero."
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A close friend of the latest soldier killed in action in Iraq spoke today of the family&#39;s shock and devastation at the news of his death.
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MOSUL, Iraq, Dec. 25 - American soldiers here ate Christmas lunch in flak jackets and combat helmets and prayed for the dead in candlelit ceremonies, marking a somber holiday after the bomb attack on their base on Tuesday, which killed 22 people.
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A memorial service is held for nine US firefighters killed in a warehouse fire in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Iraqis carry shoulders high a masked gunman in front of a burning pick-up truck of the Iraqi National Guard in Mosul, Iraq, Thursday Dec. 9, 2004 after it was hit by a roadside bomb.
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WASHINGTON - One of two soldiers who died Sunday in an attack in Najaf, Iraq, was a high school valedictorian from Bonner Springs, Kan., who was &quot;born to be a soldier,&quot; his father said.
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Hundreds gathered Sunday to remember the 49 lives lost when a Comair flight crashed shortly after takeoff a year ago.
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As head of the Junior ROTC program at Gar-Field High School in Woodbridge, Gunnery Sgt. Lester James had to tell his cadets last month that one of their own, a 2002 graduate, had been killed in Iraq.
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An American soldier was killed and two  others were wounded when their patrol came under fire in  northern Iraq, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
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At a gas station where Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker pumped gas as a teenager, car wash manager Ed Bockoven affixed red-white-and-blue balloons to the store&#039;s sign to remember Tucker and another soldier taken captive and killed in Iraq.
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Eric D. Miner spent more than a decade in the military as a special forces soldier with the Rhode Island National Guard. But when he left for Iraq last August, he wasn't in uniform. The 44-year-old father of three went to the turbulent region as an employee of State Department security contractor DynCorp International. He and three fellow workers were killed Thursday when two bombs exploded in the tightly guarded area of Baghdad known as the Green Zone.
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Childhood friends who enlisted in the Marine Corps together and died together in Iraq were buried side by side.
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A U.S. soldier who served in Iraq was so moved by the story of Youssif he had to do something.
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Two U.S. soldiers were killed and three others wounded along with a civilian interpreter on December 26 when an Iraqi soldier opened fire on them during a joint patrol, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
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The family of Peter Neesley had one wish to fulfill after the Army sergeant died in Baghdad on Christmas Day.
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A U.S. soldier was killed in a truck accident north of the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, a military spokesman said.
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Colleagues and crew men wept as they paid their respects to the &quot;excellent&quot; officer who was a victim of the fire on board a Canadian submarine.