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15 May 2006

Captions by Associated Press.
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Teodoro Torres Sr. and his wife Carmelita weep on the coffin of their son, Army Reservist Spc. Teodoro Torres Jr., during funeral services for their son, Saturday, May 13, 2006, at Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Rochester, N.Y. Torres, 29, was killed in Iraq when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle May 5, 2006. (AP Photo/Democrat and Chronicle, Max Schulte) ** MAGS OUT, NO SALES **

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In this undated photo supplied by the Kenosha News, Spc. Eric Clark, of Pleasant Prairie, Wis., was killed while on active duty in Iraq, according to an area funeral home. A family member of U.S. Army Spc. Eric D. Clark told the Kenosha News on Friday, May 12, 2006, that Army representatives had delivered the news that he died. But details of the circumstances surrounding the death this week had not been released by the military. (AP Photo/Kenosha The News)

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During the funeral service at St. Margaret's of Cortona Saturday, May 13, 2006 in Little Ferry, N.J., for U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Matthew J. Fenton, who was killed in Iraq, Fenton's father John Fenton, left, his mother Diane Fenton, seated right, and girlfriend, Andrea Patino hold U.S. flags given to them by U.S. Marines. Fenton's aunt Allison Valentin sits at left holding a portrait of him. Fenton was wounded by shrapnel when a bomb exploded near the vehicle in which he was riding outside Fallujah on April 26 and died ten days later on May 6, 2006. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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Nanette Saenz weeps as she holds the flag that covered the casket of her husband Army 1st Sgt. Carlos N. Saenz, 46, during a memorial service in Las Vegas, Saturday, May 13, 2006. Saenz was killed in Iraq on May 5. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, John Locher) ** MAGS OUT NO SALES**

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John Prazynski poses with his son, Marine Lance Cpl. Taylor Prazynski, in a March 2004 family photo in Fairfield, Ohio. Lance Cpl. Prazynski, 20, died May 9, 2005, in a hospital in Fallujah of shrapnel wounds he suffered in the Anbar province in Iraq. Since his son's death, John Prazynski has devoted much of his time to supporting the troops through fundraisers, two trips to Camp Lejeune, N.C., and interviews backing the war effort. (AP Photo/Prazynski family photo) ** NO SALES **

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Iraq War veteran, Army soldier David Adams of Carbondale, Ill., becomes emotional as he speaks about the death of a comrade - which caused him to question the Iraq War - during a peace rally Saturday, May 13, 2006 on the National Mall in Washington. Other members of Iraq Veterans Against the War console him. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

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June Letendre, left, mother of fallen Marine Capt. Brian Letendre, and the captain's brother Justin Letendre watch as a procession approaches the family's home in Woodbridge, Va., Friday, May 12, 2006. A hearse containing the body of Brian Letendre was part of the procession which passed through his childhood neighborhood while en route to Mountcastle Funeral Home in Dale City, Va. Letndre was killed on May 3, 2006 while on a combat mission in Iraq. It was his second tour of duty in Iraq. (AP Photo/The Potomac News, Peter Cihelka) ** MANDATORY CREDIT **

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An unidentified woman cries as Marines bear the casket of Lance Cpl. Robert Moscillo, of Salem, N.H., before a memorial service at the Marsh Corner Community Church, Friday, May 12, 2006, in Methuen, Mass. Moscillo was killed in Iraq earlier this month. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)

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Former U.S. Marine Sergeant Jarret Kraft pauses to regain his composure while paying tribute to friends who died in Iraq, during a ceremony where he was awarded the Navy Cross and Purple Heart for his service in Fallujah, Iraq,, Thursday May 11, 2006, in Clovis Calif. (AP Photo/The Fresno Bee, Darrell Wong)

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Marines bear the casket of Lance Cpl. Robert Moscillo, of Salem, N.H., following a memorial service at the Marsh Corner Community Church, Friday, May 12, 2006, in Methuen, Mass. Moscillo was killed in Iraq earlier this month. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)

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Olethia Richburg sharing a hug with their 12-year-old son Charles at their Baltimore home May 7, 2006. Her husband, U.S. Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Martin Richburg, serving in Al Kisik, Iraq, was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for valor and has been nominated for a Bronze Star for thwarting a bomb attack at a combination Iraqi and American base March 27, 2006. Richburg, a heavy vehicle mechanic with the 298th Maintenance Group, noticed an Iraqi man acting strangely outside the base's internet cafe. Richburg physically detained the man after he left a bag on an air conditioning unit outside the cafe and ran. Richburg then evacuated the full cafe after learning that the man has left a bomb that was set to go off in five minutes. The bomb caused major damaged to the internet cafe building, but no one was hurt. (AP Photo/Baltimore Sun, Kenneth K. Lam) **No Mags, No Sales, No Internet, No TV**

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This undated family photo shows U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Eric W. Totten. Totten 34, died Friday, May 5, 2006, with nine other soldiers when a helicopter fell into a ravine during a mountaintop landing in Kunar Province in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense said. Totten was a career Army pilot who had been in Bosnia and Iraq and was on his second tour in Afghanistan, his brother Noel, said. (AP Photo/Family of Eric Totten) **NO SALES**

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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq appear in this photo combo. Sgt. 1st Class Gregory S. Rogers of Cincinnati, OH. (AP Photo/File) (5/10/2006)

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Jamie Dorff, whose husband, Army Chief Warrant Officer Patrick Dorff, was killed in Iraq, and her daughter Brisa, 5, pose for a photo in their home in Elk River, Minn., Wednesday, May 10, 2006. Dorff, 32, of Minneapolis, died Jan. 25, 2004, when his helicopter crashed in the Tigris River while on a rescue mission. Brisa's college tuition will be paid for if she stays in Minnesota because of a World War II-era law on Minnesota's books entitles children of fallen soldiers to free tuition at public universities. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)

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Joseph Michael Ford Sr., left, sits in front of the casket of his son, U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Michael L. Ford, at a cemetery in Onset, Mass., Tuesday, May 9, 2006. Ford, 19, of New Bedford, Mass., was killed April 26 in Iraq when his tank hit a roadside bomb in Anbar province. (AP Photo/The Standard-Times, Peter Pereira)

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This undated photo provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Nathan J. Vacho, 29, of Janesville, Wis., who was one of three soldiers killed Friday, May 5, 2006, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their Humvee during combat operations in Iraq, the Department of Defense said. The other soldiers were First Sgt. Carlos N. Saenz, 46, and Spc. Teodoro Torres, 29, both of Las Vegas. (AP Photo/U.S. Army) ** NO SALES **

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This undated handout photo shows Sgt. Matthew J. Fenton. Fenton, 24, of Little Ferry, N.J., died Saturday, May 6, 2006, at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., the Department of Defense said. Fenton was wounded during combat operations in Iraq's Al Anbar province on April 26. (AP Photo/The Newark Star-Ledger) ** MAGS OUT, NO SALES, TV OUT, ONLINE OUT, NO ARCHIVING, WORLD WIDE OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT **

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U.S. and Iraqi soldiers inspect the wreckage of a bus in Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 10, 2006. Gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Iraqi civilians to work on Wednesday, then planted a bomb aboard the vehicle that exploded when rescue workers arrived, an official said. In all, 11 Iraqis were killed and six wounded. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hamed)

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This undated photo provided by the South Dakota National Guard shows Staff Sgt. Gregory Wagner. Wagner, 35, died Monday, May 8, 2006, after his vehicle was hit by a projectile in Baghdad, Iraq, according to a release from the South Dakota governor's office. Wagner, of Mitchell, S.D., was with Battery C, First Battalion of the 147th Field Artillery unit out of Yankton. (AP Photo/South Dakota National Guard) ** NO SALES **

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Friends console each other during a burial service for Marine Lance Cpl. Michael L. Ford in Onset, Mass., Tuesday, May 9, 2006. Ford, 19, of New Bedford, Mass., was killed April 26 in Iraq when his tank hit a roadside bomb in Anbar province. (AP Photo/The Standard-Times, Peter Pereira)

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This undated photo provided by the family shows Pfc. Benjamin Zieske of Concord, Calif., was killed by a roadside bomb Wednesday, May 3, 2006, while on foot patrol in Kirkuk, Iraq, about 180 miles north of Baghdad. He was two weeks shy of his 21st birthday. (AP Photo/Family photo via Contra Costa Times) ** NO INTERNET, NO MAGS, NO TV, NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDIT **

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This photo provided by Olan Mills Portrait Studios shows Army Sgt. David Veverka, of Jamestown, Pa., in an undated photo. Veverka, 25, a member of the Maine Army National Guard, was one of two National Guardsmen killed Saturday, May 6, 2006, in Iraq over the weekend, Maine's governor said. (AP Photo/Olan Mills via The Herald) ** NO SALES **

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The relatives of Enrico Frassanito, with in foreground, from left, his brother Giuseppe and his mother Anita, during the funerals of Carabinieri officer Enrico Frassanito in Verona, northern Italy, Tuesday May 9, 2006. Frassanito died upon his return to in Verona Sunday May 7, 2006 after being gravely wounded in an April 27 bombing in Iraq bringing to four the number of Italians killed in the blast. Sgt. Frassanito had been transferred from a hospital in Kuwait City to Verona in hopes that he might recover, but he died of irreversible septic shock Sunday afternoon. Three other Italians - two Carabinieri officials and an army official - as well as a Romanian corporal were killed during the April 27 roadside blast in the southern city of Nasiriyah, where the Italian contingent is based. (AP Photo/Claudio Martinelli)

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This undated photo provided by the Maine Army National Guard shows Staff Sgt. Dale J. Kelly Jr., of Richmond, Maine. Kelly is one of two National Guardsmen killed Saturday, May 6, 2006, in Iraq. (AP Photo/Army National Guard)

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** IMAGE FORM VIDEO ** Photo from RAI TG1 television news of the Italian Carabinieri vehicle which was bombed in Nasiriyah, Iraq, on April 27, 2006. Enrico Frassanito, the carabinieri official who was gravely injured in the April 27 bombing in Iraq died Sunday May 7, 2006 from his injuries in a Verona hospital, northern Italy, bringing to four the number of Italians killed in the blast, officials said. Carabinieri Sgt. Frassanito had been transferred from a hospital in Kuwait City to Verona in hopes that he might recover, but he died of irreversible septic shock Sunday afternoon. (AP Photo/RAI TG1) **NO SALES , MANDATORY CREDIT **

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** IMAGE FORM VIDEO ** Photo from RAI TG1 television news of the Italian Carabinieri vehicle which was bombed in Nasiriyah, Iraq, on April 27, 2006. Enrico Frassanito, the carabinieri official who was gravely injured in the April 27 bombing in Iraq died Sunday from his injuries in a Verona hospital, northern Italy, bringing to four the number of Italians killed in the blast, officials said. Carabinieri Sgt. Frassanito had been transferred from a hospital in Kuwait City to Verona in hopes that he might recover, but he died of irreversible septic shock Sunday afternoon. Three other Italians _ two Carabinieri officials and an army official _ as well as a Romanian corporal were killed during the April 27 roadside blast in the southern city of Nasiriyah, where the Italian contingent is based. (AP Photo/RAI TG1) **NO SALES , MANDATORY CREDIT **

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U.S. Army Pvt. Preston Oldaker, with the 416th Transportation Company, and his mom laugh as they read a letter from Oldaker's sergeant Friday, May 5, 2006, at home in Hobbs, N.M. In March 2005, Oldaker was escorting a convoy into war-torn Iraq from Jordan when his Humvee hit an improvised explosive device, leaving him with shrapnel wounds to his right leg. He has been discharged from the army. (AP Photo/Hobbs News-Sun, Kimberly Ryan)

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Capt. David Ward, commander of C Battery, 3rd Battalion, 13th Field Artillery, greets his daughter, Katie, at a homecoming ceremony Monday, May 8,2006, at Fort Sill, Okla. Ward was returning from a deployment in Iraq. (AP Photo/The Constitution, Jeff Dixon)

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Sgt. Conrad Sheley, far right, talks about a real-life scenario with his group as part of a class on Arab Culture through the military intelligence school at Fort Huachuca in Tucson, Ariz., April 26, 2006. Erin Pendleton, middle, listens to Sheley during the discussion. Students in the class will turn around and teach other soldiers aspects of the Arab culture In Southern Arizona and elsewhere, troops are learning how to get along better with locals in Iraq and Afghanistan _ or, at least, to avoid offending them out of cultural ignorance.(AP Photo/Arizona Daily Star, Mamta Popat) ** MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALES, NO MAGS **

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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq appear in this photo combo. Pvt. Travis C. Zimmerman of New Berlinville, Pa. (AP Photo/File) (5/08/06)

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Sgt. Chris Wade, left, of Dublin, Texas, and Staff Sgt. Chris Curtis, of Helena, Mont., pass the time playing chess while waiting for their demobilization flight from Baghdad, Sunday afternoon, May 7, 2006. The men, members of Alpha Company 422nd Civil Affairs, are going home after fulfilling their one-year tour of duty in Iraq. (AP Photo/The Idaho State Journal, Bill Schaefer)

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A plainclothes American security person, left, and an Iraqi policeman take cover during a shootout near the Baghdad hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday Sept. 12, 2003. Since militaries were slashed at the end of the Cold War, private companies have been a growing presence on the world's battlefields, performing jobs conventional forces can no longer handle. (AP Photo/Samir Mezban)

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A Jordanian businessman check a model dressed in a military style outfit at the Rebuild Iraq 2006 exhibition in Amman, Jordan, Monday, May, 8, 2006. The weeklong "Rebuild Iraq 2006" has drawn some 20,000 businesspeople and more than 1,000 exhibitors from 50 countries in search of ways to enter the Iraqi market or increase their business presence there. (AP Photo/Nader Daoud)

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A helicopter manned by private contractors flies past a mosque as it circles the scene of a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday, July 5, 2005. Since militaries were slashed at the end of the Cold War, private companies have been a growing presence on the world's battlefields, performing jobs conventional forces can no longer handle. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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This photo provided by family shows Marine Sgt. Elisha Parker in an undated photo. Parker, 21, of Taberg, N.Y., was killed Thursday, May 4, 2006, in combat operations against enemy forces in Al Anbar province, in Iraq, the military said. (AP Photo/Family photo via Observer-Dispatch) ** NO SALES **

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** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND, MAY 6-7 **Jessica Lynch, a student at West Virginia University, is photographed in Woodburn Circle on the school's campus in Morgantown, W.Va., April. 27, 2006. Three years after her capture and dramatic nighttime rescue in the early days of the Iraq war made her an instant celebrity, Jessica Lynch yearns for the ordinary. As a freshman at West Virginia University, she's become an anonymous college student on a campus of thousands and has just finished her first year. (AP Photo/Dale Sparks)

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An injured Iraqi is dragged away after shooting broke out between British troops and armed militiamen in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Saturday, May 6 , 2006. A British military helicopter crashed and Iraqis hurled stones at British troops and set fire to three armored vehicles that rushed to the scene. (AP Photo/Nabil Al-Jurani)

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One British trooper falls after apparently being hit by a rock, as British troops move towards helicopter crash site in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Saturday, May 6 , 2006. A British military helicopter crashed apparently downed by a missile, triggering a confrontation in which jubilant residents pelted British rescuers with stones, hurled firebombs and shouted slogans in support of a radical Shiite cleric. (AP Photo/Nabil Al-Jurani)

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Mike Spinello holds the dog tags of Staff Sgt. Mark Wall during Wall's funeral, Saturday, May 6, 2006, at Alden Cemetery in Alden, Iowa. Spinello was Wall's company commanding officer in Iraq. Wall, 27, of Alden, died in Iraq from a cardiac arrest in the dining facility at his unit's base in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Matthew Putney)

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An injured Iraqi lies on the ground as others take cover after shooting broke out between British troops and armed militiamen near a helicopter crash site in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Saturday, May 6 , 2006. A British military helicopter crashed in residential area and a crowd of Iraqis cheered and threw stones at British forces who raced to the scene to close off the area. (AP Photo/Nabil Al-Jurani)

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An injured Iraqi is carried away after British soldiers opened fire near the helicopter crash site in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Saturday, May 6, 2006. A British military helicopter crashed in a residential area and a crowd of Iraqis cheered and threw stones at British forces who raced to the scene to close off the area. (AP Photo/Nabil Al-Jurani)

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A British armored vehicle burns in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Saturday, May 6, 2006. A British military helicopter crashed in residential area and a crowd of Iraqis cheered and threw stones at British forces who raced to the scene to close off the area. (AP Photo/Nabil Al-Jurani)

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An undated photograph provided by the Letendre family shows U.S. Marine Capt. Brian S. Letendre, 27, of Woodbridge, Va. Letendre, with the 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division in Iraq, died Wednesday, May 3, 2006 in combat operations in the Al Anbar province, military officials said. (AP Photo/Letendre family) ** NO SALES **

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An undated photograph provided by the Letendre family shows U.S. Marine Capt. Brian S. Letendre, 27, of Woodbridge, Va. Letendre, with the 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division in Iraq, died Wednesday, May 3, 2006 in combat operations in the Al Anbar province, military officials said. (AP Photo/Letendre family) ** NO SALES **

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Spc. Lenea Lupe speaks to her youngest son, Tariq Stevens, 2, after a re-enlistment ceremony at Fort Carson Friday morning, May 4, 2006, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Lupe has served 20 months in the army and re-enlisted for four more years. She has served in Iraq and Korea.(AP Photo/The Gazette, Carol Lawrence) ** MAGS OUT NO SALES **

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Friends and relatives carry casket of one of five Sunni Baghdad residents for their funeral in Baghdad, Saturday, May 6 , 2006. Police in Baghdad found the bodies of seven Iraqi men, five of them relatives from Iraq's Sunni Arab minority, who had been kidnapped and brutally killed. They appeared to be the latest victims of a wave of sectarian killings by "death squads," police said. (AP Photo/Asaad Muhsin)

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, right, hugs George Taylor of Jacksonville, Fla. at the conclusion of the American Foreign Service Association's, (AFSA), Memorial Plaque dedicating ceremony at the State Department in Washington, Friday, May 5, 2006. Taylor's son, LDCR Keith Taylor U.S. Navy Reserve, was killed in action at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 29, 2006, and was one of four people honored today with their names inscribed on the Memorial Plaque. (AP Photo/Chris Greenberg)

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Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., right, comforts Paula Gonzalez, Friday,May 5, 2006, at her home in Las Cruces, N.M., after Pearce talked about her son, Army Cpl. Jesse Zamora, who died while serving in Iraq. Standing behind Gonzalez is her husband, Sergio "Nacho" Gonzalez. The local community and constituents gathered together to raise a flag, which flew over the Capitol, in memory of Zamora. (AP Photo/Las Cruces Sun-News, Norm Dettlaff)

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Protestors, from left, Brent Roper, Noah Phelps-Roper, 7, Jonah Phelps-Roper, 9, and Marge Phelps, hold signs and sing songs across the street from the Hudsonville Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., where a funeral was being held Friday, May 5, 2006, for Army Sgt. 1st Class Rick Herrema, who was killed in Iraq. They are part of a group of protestors from the Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church that have protested at military funerals in several states. The church claims the soldiers' deaths are a sign of God punishing America for tolerating homosexuality. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press, Lance Wynn)

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The casket of Army Cpl. Jason Brent Daniel is carried by caisson to his funeral service Friday, May 5, 2006, at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio. Daniel, 21, was killed April 23 by a roadside bomb in Taji, Iraq. Daniel was assigned to the 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, based in Fort Hood, Texas. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Bahram Mark Sobhani) ** MAGS OUT NO SALES **

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In this photo provided by the Donaldson family, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Christopher B. Donaldson is shown. Donaldson, 28, a native of Illinois, was one of 10 Fort Drum, N.Y., soldiers killed May 5, 2006, when their helicopter crashed into a ravine during a mountaintop landing in Kunar Province in Afghanistan. The crash marked the deadliest day for Fort Drum soldiers since March 11, 2003, when a helicopter crashed killing 11 soldiers. The Army is continuing to investigate the cause of the crash.(AP Photo/Donaldson family photo via Effingham Daily News)

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This undated photo released by the U. S. Army on Wednesday, May 10, 2006, shows Pfc. Brian M. Moquin, Jr., 19, a cavalry scout and native of Worcester, Mass., who was killed while conducting combat operations in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, Friday, May 5, 2006. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, HO)

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This undated photo provided by the family shows U.S. Army Sgt. Bryan Brewster. Brewster, 24, was killed Friday, May 5, 2006, along with nine other members of the Fort Drum, N.Y.-based 10th Mountain Division in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Family photo via San Bernardino Sun) ** NO SALES **

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Following her graduation, Christina Lakey of Salt Lake City, Utah, carries a cardboard cut-out of her husband, Army Reserve Spc. Benjamin Lakey, through a parking lot at Utah State University in Logan, Utah Saturday, May 6, 2006. Lakey's husband could not attend the ceremony because he is serving in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Standard-Examiner, Beth Schlanker)

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A photo provided by the Bixler family shows Stephen Bixler of Suffield, Conn., who was killed in Iraq on Wednesday, May 4, 2006, while serving with the U.S. Marine Corps. Bixler, 20, was killed while on his second tour of duty in Iraq. (AP Photo/Bixler Family) ** NO SALES **

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Sgt. Jose Gomez, of Corona, N.Y., is shown with his mother, Maria Gomez, in this undated family photo. Concerned that his mother would worry about him, Gomez, 23, never told her that he was returning to Iraq for a second tour: telling her instead that he would be attending school in Texas, according to an article published Wednesday, May 3, 2006, in Newsday. Maria learned that her son was killed by a roadside bomb on April 28, when two soldiers came to her home last weekend to tell her. Gomez was assigned to the 10th Cavalry, 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas. (AP Photo/Family photo via Newsday) **NO SALES, NYC OUT**

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Army Sgt. Robert William Ehney's parents, Harry and Mary Beth Ehney, holding Robert's 4-year-old son, William Jacob Ehney, listen to "Taps" being played on a bugle during the burial service for Ehney at Camp Nelson National Cemetery near Nicholasville, Ky., Thursday, May 4, 2006. Ehney was killed in a roadside bombing in Iraq. (AP Photo/Lexington Herald-Leader, Charles Bertram)

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Theresa Hagarman, a sophomore at Kent State University reads the names of the soldiers killed while serving in Iraq on homemade tombstones made up by the Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition during a memorial service, Thursday, May 4, 2006, in Kent, Ohio honoring the four Kent students killed May 4, 1970 during a Vietnam War protest. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, John Kuntz) ** MANDATORY CREDIT **

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This undated family photo shows Marine Lance Cpl. Aaron W. Simons. Simons, 20, of Modesto, Calif., died April 24, 2006, when rockets hit his base in al-Qaim, Iraq. He was assigned to Twentynine Palms. Simons musical skills were something special. Even in Iraq, a guitar was by his side and he taught fellow Marines how to play. In addition to the guitar, Simons taught himself to play piano, violin and even picked up the ukulele. (AP Photo/Family photo via The Modesto Bee) ** NO SALES **

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Brenda Abbott, center left, of Ivesdale, hugs her husband Bryan Abbott during a homecoming celebration for the 2nd Battalion, 130th Infantry, Thursday, May 4, 2006, in Urbana, Ill. The Illinois National Guard unit was part of a larger group of soldiers that left Fort Stewart, Ga., last May 15. The unit lost only one casualty during its time in Iraq. Spc. James T. Grijalva, 26, of Burbank, Ill., died from a non-combat injury Oct. 12. (AP Photo/The (Champaign) News-Gazette, John Dixon)

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This photo provided by the family shows Army Staff Sgt. Bryant A. Herlem, 37, of Copperas Cove, Texas, who was killed in Baghdad, Iraq, on April 28, 2006, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during combat operations. (AP Photo/Herlem family)

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This undated photo provided by the family shows U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Robert Moscillo of Salem, N.H. Moscillo, 21, a 2003 graduate of Salem High School, was killed Tuesday May 2, 2006, when his Humvee hit a land mine in Iraq. (AP Photo/Courtesy Moscillo Family) ** NO SALES **

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A U.S. Navy Corpsman walks passed bullet proof vests and helmets at a Marine base in Fallujah, 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 3, 2006. In addition to protective vests, helmets, ammunition, first aid kits, guns, knifes, radios and drinking water, some U.S. troops now wear side, shoulder and groin protection bringing the total weight of "battle rattle" to nearly 36 kilograms (80lbs). (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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U.S. soldiers prepare to swim at a pool run by the Australian military at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq, April 9, 2006. Top U.S. and coalition commanders and their staffs now enjoy an array of modern conveniences and amenities across the command center. (AP Photo/Antonio Castaneda)

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Katharine Tuliau comforts her daughter Vanessa, 11, during the Fort Drum dedication ceremony Tuesday, May 2, 2006, for a memorial honoring four soldiers killed in Iraq in 2005 from the 2nd Brigade, 78th Division. Her husband, Master Sgt. Tulsa T. Tuliau, was wearing the wedding ring seen on Tuliau's necklace, when he died in action in Iraq Sept. 26. (AP Photo/The Post-Standard, John Berry) ** NO MAGS, NO SALES, TV OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO ARCHIVE **

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** ADVANCE FOR MONDAY MAY 8 ** Scott Holloway, 37, owner of Mojave Laboratories Inc. poses with one of the converted Ford F-550 armored vehicle March, 29, 2006, in Oak Park Heights, Minn. The company converts sport utility vehicles into armored vehicles. The war in Iraq has sent him to some of the world's most dangerous places, where his $250,000 trucks are used by private security firms working alongside the military. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Stormi Greener) **MAGS OUT, BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO**

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U.S. troops killed during the war in Afghanistan appear in this photo combo. Capt. Clayton L. Adamkavicius of Fairdale, Ky. (AP Photo/File)

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The casket of Canadian Bombardier Myles Mansell travels on a World War II gun carriage flanked by an honor guard as it arrives at Christ Church Cathederal for Mansell's funeral in Victoria, British Columbia, Wednesday, May 3, 2006. Mansell was killed in Afghanistan April 22. (AP Photo/Chuck Stoody, CP)

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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq appear in this photo combo. From left: Cpl. Scott J. Procopio of Saugus, Mass., Staff Sgt. Jason C. Ramseyer of Lenoir, N.C., Pfc. George R. Roehl Jr. of Manchester, N.H., Spc. Daniel L. Sesker of Ogden, IA., Lance Cpl. Darin T. Settle of Henley, Mo. (AP Photo/File)

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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq are seen in this photo combo. From left: Cpl. Jason Brent Daniel of Crowley, TX., Lance Cpl. Michael Ford of New Bedford, Mass., Special Operations Command, Sgt. 1st Class Richard J. Herrema of Jackson, Tenn. (AP Photo/File)

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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq are seen in this photo combo. From left: Spc. Andrew Waits of Waterford, Mich., Pfc. Ryan George Winslow. Winslow of Hoover, Ala. (AP Photo/File)

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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq appear in this photo combo. From left: Lance Cpl. Justin Sims of Covington, Ky., Cpl. Brian St. Germain of West Warwick, R.I., Lance Cpl. Bryan N. Taylor of Milford, OH, Pfc. Patrick A. Tinnell of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., Staff Sgt. Abraham G. Twitchell of Yelm, Wash. (AP Photo/File)

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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq appear in this photo combo. From left: Sgt. 1st Class Randall L. Lamberson of Springfield, Mo., Pfc. Joseph I. Love-Fowler of North Pole, AK., Corporal Eric R. Lueken, of Dubois, Ind., Cpl. Pablo Mayorga of Margate, Fla., Spc. Mark W. Melcher of Bethel Park, Pa. (AP Photo/File)

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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq appear in this photo combo. From left: Pvt. Jody W. Missildine, 19, Plant City, Fla., Captain Timothy J. Moshier of Albany, N.Y., Lance Cpl. Juana Navarro of Ceres, Calif., Petty Officer 3rd Class Marcques J. Nettles of Beaverton, Ore., Lance Cpl. Stephen J. Perez of San Antonio, TX. (AP Photo/File)

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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq appear in this photo combo. From left: Spc. James W. Gardner, 22, of Glasgow, Ky., Spc. Dustin James Harris, of Patten, ME., Chief Warrant Officer Michael L. Hartwick Jr., of Orrick, Mo., Spc. Kenneth D. Hess, 26, Asheville, N.C., Spc. Ty J. Johnson, 28, Elk Grove, Calif. (AP Photo/File)

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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq appear in this photo combo. From left: Master Sgt. Clinton Cubert of Lawrenceburg, Ky., Jeremy W. Ehle of Richmond, Va., Sgt. Robert W. Ehney of Lexington, Ky., Lance Cpl. Patrick J. Gallagher of Jacksonville, Fla., Sgt. Israel Devora Garcia of Clint, TX. (AP Photo/File)

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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq are seen in this photo combo. From left: Cpl. Andres Aguilar Jr. of Victoria, TX., Pvt. Michael E. Bouthot of Fall River, Mass., Pfc. Roland Calderon-Ascencio of Miami-Dade, Fla., Staff Sgt. Darrell Clay of Fayetteville, N.C., Spc. Shawn R. Creighton of Windsor, N.C. (AP Photo/File)

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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq appear in this photo combo. From left: Spc. David S. Collinis of Jasper, Ga., Pfc. James F. Costello III of Oakville, Mo., Pfc. Raymond L. Henry of Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/File)

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This photo provided by the U.S. Army shows Staff Sgt. Mark Wall, standing at far right, in an undated photo. Wall, 27, of Alden, Iowa, died in Iraq from a non combat-related illness, the Army said Tuesday, May 2, 2006. Wall suffered a cardiac arrest in the dining facility at his unit's base in Mosul Thursday morning, April 27, 2006, Iraq time, Army spokesman Maj. Kirk Gohlke said. Wall was assigned to the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)

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U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. James Yoshikawa, left, of Norwich, Vermont, and Cpl. Michael Moran, of Methuen, Massachusetts, ride in the open back of a humvee in Fallujah, 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 2, 2006. A bomb hidden in a parked minibus exploded in Baghdad's main wholesale market on Tuesday, killing two Iraqis and wounding five. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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Villagers carry the plastic blanket-wrapped body of Azatullah, a brick factory worker killed after a suicide attack next to a military convoy, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 2, 2006. A suicide attacker detonated his bomb-rigged car near a coalition military convoy north of Kabul Tuesday, killing himself and an Afghan bystander but causing no coalition casualties, officials said. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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Toyo Turner, sister of fallen Canadian soldier Lt.William Turner, follows Capt. Barry Marbach as he carries an urn containing the remains of Lt. Turner at his funeral in Erin, Ontario northwest of Toronto, Monday May 1, 2006. Turner was one of four Canadian soldiers killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan last month. (AP Photo/Adrian Wyld, CP)

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Spc. Carlos Garcia, 21, right, of Los Angeles, of Charlie Company of the U.S. Army's 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, mans a .50 caliber machine gun and looks through binoculars out a window of a U.S. observation post in Ramadi, Iraq, Sunday, April 30, 2006, with an Iraqi soldier. U.S. commanders asked that the Iraqi soldier not be identified. (AP Photo/Todd Pitman)

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In this photo provided by the Italian presidency press service, Military chaplain Angelo Bagnasco blesses with incence the coffins of the three Italian soldiers killed in Iraq last week in Santa Maria degli Angeli Basilica in Rome, Tuesday, May 2, 2006. The three Italian victims were Nicola Ciardelli, 33, and Franco Lattanzio and Carlo De Trizio, both warrant officers with the Carabinieri. (AP Photo/Enrico Oliverio, Italian presidency press service, ho)

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This undated family photo shows U.S. Army Pfc. James F. Costello III, Costello, 27, of Oakville, Mo., was killed April 11, 2006, with two other soldiers after coming under small-arms fire following the detonation of an improvised explosive device near his Bradley fighting vehicle. Costello had been in Iraq about four months with his cavalry regiment. (AP Photo/Family photo via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) **NO SALES**

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Amanda Ramseyer, second from right, watches as an American flag which covered the remains of her husband, Marine Staff Sgt. Jason Ramseyer is folded by members of the honor guard during a funeral ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Monday, May 1, 2006. Ramseyer, who was killed in action in Iraq by an IED (improvised explosive device) on April 21, was laid to rest today. (AP Photo/Mannie Garcia)

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In this photo made available by the U.S. Air Force on Saturday, April 15, 2006, West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin signs a missile on an unmanned Predator aircraft stationed in Iraq. Manchin has since apologized in writing and in person to the West Virginia Patriots for Peace for the message "Sending you to Hell from Almost Heaven." Manchin said he was caught in a moment of excitement and camaraderie with the troops and did not wish to offend anyone. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force)

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U.S. Marine Sgt. Derek McGee, of Rhinebeck, New York, speaks into his radio during a patrol in Fallujah, the site of the largest U.S. battle in Iraq, 65 kilometers (40 miles), west of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 1, 2006. Three years ago today, President Bush stood aboard an aircraft carrier, the USS Lincoln, declaring the end of major military operations in Iraq, with a banner that read, "Mission Accomplished." (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)