Iraq war vet talks of fatal rock toss
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Tears in his eyes, an Iraq war veteran recounted for the first time publicly the desperate remorse he felt after tossing a large rock off a cliff that killed a climber below.
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The former commander of a U.S. Army sniper team testified Friday that he ordered one of his soldiers to kill an Iraqi who had stumbled on their hiding place, saying that was the only way to ensure the safety of his men in hostile territory.
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Before he left for the war, a Marine who was killed in Iraq had a friend memorize messages to give to each member of his family in case something happened to him.
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A reporter from a Tennessee newspaper who has been embedded with some of the soldiers attending Donald Rumsfeld&#39;s town hall meeting in Kuwait on Wednesday said he planted the dramatic question about using scrap metal to protect unarmed vehicles.
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Lance Cpl. Miguel Terrazas&#039; bedroom is nothing short of a shrine to the Marine whose death in an Iraqi roadside explosion preceded a firefight that now is the focus of a criminal investigation.
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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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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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A Marine was killed today in Iraq, the U.S. military announced.
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A U.S. military dog whose handler and best friend was killed in Iraq got a new assignment today -- retirement with the late Marine's family. Lex was beside Cpl. Dustin Lee when Lee was killed in a mortar attack in Falluja. It took months of lobbying by the family to get the dog's adoption approved by the military.
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The first anniversary of losing both his lower legs in a bomb explosion in Iraq may seem like an unlikely cause for celebration, but Hanson native Brian Fountaine is happy, grateful for all his family and friends, and getting on with his life. He marked the date he calls his ''alive day'' Friday.
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This seaside military town reacted with grief and resolve Wednesday at the news that 31 servicemembers were killed when a transport helicopter crashed in the deadliest single incident yet for U.S. forces in Iraq.
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He was a stern-faced sniper &amp;#151; and a soft-hearted Marine who handed out candy to kids in Iraq. He was a warrior who wrote poetry about life and death.
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A former Senate Intelligence Committee chairman asserted Sunday that the general who ran the war in Afghanistan said more than a year before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that his resources were being shifted in preparation for taking on Saddam Hussein.
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RADCLIFF, Kentucky  - A decorated U.S. Army veteran who was wounded in Iraq and then deserted to Canada to protest the war as a mistake surrendered to the military on Tuesday.
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Slate: "Republican Senator John Warner asked General David Petraeus whether the current strategy in Iraq 'will make America safer.'" Petraeus: "I believe that this is indeed the best course of action to achieve our objectives in Iraq." Warner repeated: "Does that make America safer?" Petraeus: "I don't know, actually."
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IWO JIMA, Japan -- Avoiding unexploded grenades and hacking their way through cactus under a blazing sun, a US search team has located two caves where its believes a Marine who filmed the iconic flag-raising on Iwo Jima may have been killed 62 years ago in one of World War II's most symbolic battles.
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A U.S. Marine was killed in action in Iraq&#039;s volatile western Anbar province, the U.S. Command said Monday.