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Melissa Heng, left, and Amy Chen, both of San Francisco, comfort each other during a memorial service for their late friend, Marine Lance Cpl. Sok Khak Ung, at the Valencia Street Serra Mortuary in San Francisco, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2003. Ung, 22, returned from active duty in Iraq in July, but was killed at his father's Long Beach home earlier this month by an unknown gunman, according to police. (AP Photo/Erin Lubin)
Funeral
procession of LCpl. Jakub H. Kowalik, May 28, 2003. (Family photo)
The family
of LCpl. Jakub Kowalik receive the flag which draped his casket, May 28, 2003 (Family
photo).
Janina Bitz,
right, holds her two year-old son Joshua during a check presentation from the Fallen
Patriot Fund at her home in Jacksonville, N.C., Wednesday, May 7, 2003. Her husband,
Marine Sgt. Michael E. Bitz, was killed in Iraq in March. The fund was created by Dallas
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to aid families of U.S. military personnel who were killed or
seriously injured during Operation Iraqi Freedom. (AP Photo/Stan Gilliland)
U.S. Marines carry the casket of Marine Cpl.
Armando Ariel Gonzalez, 25, of Hialeah, Fla., during funeral services Tuesday, April 29,
2003, in Hialeah. Gonzalez was killed when a refueling truck collapsed on him in Iraq
earlier this month. (AP Photo/Lee Suarez, Ho)
Buddhist Monks escort a Marine honor guard
carrying the casket of Marine Cpl. Kemaphoom Chanawongse, of Waterford, Conn., during
funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Monday, April 28, 2003.
Chanawongse was killed on March 23 during operations on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq.
For the first time in memory, a Buddhist monk is presiding over an Arlington National
Cemetery burial ceremony(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Marines and soldiers salute as the flag-draped body of Riayan A. Tejeda, a
U.S. Marine killed in in Ira, is placed inside a hearse at the conclusion of a funeral
mass for the slain Marine, Monday, April 21, 2003, in the Washington Heights section of
New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Erica Rois (C), widow of Marine Sgt. Duane Rios, closes her eyes while
holding a U.S. flag after a memorial service for her husband outside St. Mary's Church in
Griffith, Indiana, April 19, 2003. Rios was killed in battle outside Baghdad on April 4,
2003. REUTERS/Frank Polich
Friends and
family of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Andrew Aviles gather at St. Patrick Catholic Church for a
vigil prayer service Monday, April 21, 2003, in Tampa, Fla. Aviles was killed in the line
of duty while serving in Iraq on April 7. (AP Photo/Jason Behnken, Pool)
Marine First Sgt. Edward Smith's wife Sandy (L) and eldest son Nathan, 12, and
eight-year-old and daughter Shelby, hug as his coffin is loaded into a hearse, at a
memorial service held by Anaheim Police Department, April 17, 2003. Sgt. Smith worked as a
reserve officer, and was killed on April 5 during the war in Iraq. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
A Marine
fights back tears as he sits with his wife during a memorial service for Marine First Sgt.
Edward Smith, held by the Anaheim Police Department, in California, April 17, 2003. Sgt.
Smith, who worked as a reserve officer in Anaheim, was killed last April 5 during the war
in Iraq. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
First Lt.
James Reid, Marine Corps Cpl. Patrick Nixon 's platoon leader, pauses over his casket
Thursday, April 17, 2003 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Nixon was killed
March 23, 2003 in Nasiryah, Iraq when his unit was ambushed. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Rev. Michael
Blankenship speaks at the funeral for Marine Cpl. Patrick Nixon at College Heights Baptist
Church Tuesday, April 15, 2003 in Gallatin, Tenn. Nixon is the first Tennessean killed in
the war against Iraq His body was found March 30, a week after his unit was ambushed as it
tried to secure a bridge near Nasiriyah in southern Iraq. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
U.S.
Marine Brig. Gen. Mastin Robeson (R) comforts Charlene Stroud, the mother of United States
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Brian Anderson, after giving her the flag that draped Anderson's
coffin at a graveside service in Durham, North Carolina, April 15, 2003. Anderson, who was
stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, died in an accident near Nasiriyah, Iraq.
Anderson is the second North Carolina native killed in the war in Iraq. Stroud's husband
James is at left. REUTERS/Ellen Ozier
Marines
lower coffin of Lt. Frederick Pokorney, Jr.., of the 1st Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment,
stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Monday, April 14, 2003 at Arlington National Cemetery in
Arlington, Va. Pokorney was killed March 23, 2003 in Iraq
Police officers from Salt Lake City and a Marine honor guard escort the
casket of US Marine Staff Sgt. James Wilford Cawley past several hundred officers for his
funeral in Bountiful, Utah.(AFP/File/George Frey)
Lorenza
Padilla-Ramirez (front) is comforted by her daughter, Martha, as they both looked at a
photo of Fernando Padilla-Ramirez, Lorenza's son and Martha's brother, on a wall in San
Luis, Ariz.
A U.S. Marine color guard escorts the casket
of Marine Lance Cpl. William White following memorial services in his church in Brooklyn,
N.Y., Saturday, April 12, 2003. 
U.S. Marines carry the casket
of Cpl Jose Angel Garibay, killed in the war in Iraq, at his funeral Friday, April 11,
2003, at the St. Joaquim Catholic Church in Costa Mesa, Calif. (AP Photo/Rose Palmisano)
He was granted posthumous US citizenship this week. AP - Apr
11 10:44 PM 
Police officers from the Costa
Mesa Police Dept. load the body of Cpl Jose Angel Garibay into a hearse after a memorial
service in Costa Mesa, California April 10, 2003. Garibay was killed in Iraq (news - web
sites) while fighting with the United States Marines and had planned to become a police
officer in Costa Mesa after his military service. REUTERS/John Hayes
Catholic Priest Danilo
Sanchinelli performs the ceremony at the funeral of Guatemalan born Marine Lance Cpl. Jose
Antonio Gutierrez at Los Cipreses cemetery in Guatemala City, Wednesday April 9, 2003.
Gutierrez, 28, became one of the first combat casualties of the war in Iraq (news - web
sites) when he was killed in ground combat fighting for the port city of Umm al Qasr of
Iraq. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Two members of a Marine honor
guard secure the American flag over the casket of Marine Cpl. Randal Rosacker as others
fire a 21-gun salute in the background during burial services near Alamosa, Colo., on
Friday, April 4, 2003. Randal Rosacker was killed in Iraq (news
- web
sites) on March 23. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
The casket baring the body of
slain U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Brian Buesing, killed in the fighting in Iraq, is carried by
horses to the grave site at Cedar Key, Fla. Saturday, April 5, 2003. Brian's photo is
shown in signs set up throughout the city. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)
A United States Marine Corps
color guard carry the casket of Corporal Brian Matthew Kennedy during funeral services at
the First United Methodist Church Monday April 7, 2003 in San Diego. The 25-year-old
Kennedy was killed in Iraq (news - web sites) March 21, 2003. (AP Photo/Pool,Peggy Peattie
)
Marines carry the casket of
Marine Sgt. Bradley Korthaus, of Davenport, Iowa, in to the Our Lady of Victory Church for
funeral services, Monday, April 7, 2003, in Davenport, Iowa. Korthaus was killed in
southwest Iraq (news - web sites) on March 24 according to U.S. military officials. (AP
Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
A U.S. Marine stands at
attention as the coffin of Lance Cpl. Jose Antonio Gutierrez is carried into the church at
the start of his funeral, Monday, April 7, 2003, in Lomita, Calif. Guitierrez was killed
in combat March 21 during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The casket of slain Marine
Corporal David Fribley is carried to the grave for services at Etna Green cemetery in Etna
Green, Indiana, April 8, 2003. Fribley was the first serviceman from Indiana to be killed
in the war against Iraq (news - web sites). REUTERS/Frank Polich
William
Buesing III, father of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Brian Buesing, 20, holds an American flag
given to him by a member of a Marine color guard as he grieves over his son's coffin
during funeral services Saturday in Cedar Key, Fla. Buesing was one of nine Marines who
died in a confrontation with Iraqi troops near Nasiriyah, Iraq, on March 23.
Tony Nave, 6,
leaves a funeral in White Lake Township, Mich., for his dad, Maj. Kevin Nave.
U.S. Marine Lt. Col. David
Kilborn hands the flag that draped the casket of Marine Gunnery Sgt. Philip A. Jordan to
Jordan's son Tyler, 6, as his mother, Amanda, looks on Wednesday at St. Patrick Cemetery
in Enfield, Conn. Jordan died in an ambush in Nasiriyah, Iraq. April 4, 2003.
An
unidentified woman touches the casket of Marine Capt. Ryan Beaupre on Thursday, April 3,
2003 in St. Anne, Ill.
The body of
Marine Capt. Ryan Beaupre arrives at St. Anne Grade School for a visitation service on
Wednesday, April 2.
Friends, family and fellow Marines gather at the funeral
service for 1st Lt. Therrel S. Childers in Powell, Wyoming. Military officials say he was
the first American killed in combat in Iraq, April 1, 2003.
The casket
of GySgt. Phillip T. Jordan arrives in Conn., March 31, 2003.