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Bringing the War Home

By AAN Staff
august 21, 2003  10:05 am
Bringing the War Home
Army Spc. Justin Hebert was the 52nd American soldier killed in Iraq since President Bush declared the war over on May 1 and the first combat fatality of this war from the state of Washington. Friends, family and veterans bade him farewell in the quiet valley where he was born and raised, and then he was buried in one of the special caskets reserved just for soldiers. "As they laid Justin Hebert to rest, it was hard to square the death of the 20-year-old with what we know now about the invasion of Iraq," Rick Anderson writes in Seattle Weekly.
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