First to die
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Marine 2nd lieutenant Therrel Shane Childers knew the mission and about its risks and dangers but he never wavered. His company, Alpha Company of the Fifth Marines was given a mission to secure an important facility in the Rumaila oils fields, a complex marked on maps as Pumping Station No. 2., where Lt. Childers was the first combat death in the Iraq war.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 2004
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The devil and Jeffrey MacDonald
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Former Green Beret captain and surgeon, Jeffrey MacDonald, is serving a triple life-term sentence for killing his pregnant wife and two young daughters in 1970. His lawyers are pushing for a new trial based on DNA testing of hairs found under his children's fingernails.
Publication Name: Vanity Fair
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0733-8899
Year: 1998
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