Families grieve as Iraq toll mounts

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006 - Page updated at 12:00 AM

Families grieve as Iraq toll mounts

By Ellen Barry, David Zucchino and P.J. Huffstutter

Los Angeles Times

WELLSBORO, Pa. — Four were teenagers. Thirty were 21 or younger. The oldest was 53. They left homes in big cities and small prairie towns and Southern hamlets to answer the call of duty in Iraq, where 103 soldiers, Marines, airmen and seamen died in October — the war's fourth-deadliest month and the worst since January 2005.

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In Aurora, Ill., on Monday, U.S. flags held by volunteers snapped in a brisk wind outside San Pablo Evangelical Lutheran Church as mourners said farewell to Marine sniper Eduardo "Eddy" Lopez, 21. Lopez, a lance corporal, had survived duty in Afghanistan but was killed Oct. 19 during combat in the insurgent stronghold of Anbar Province.

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In Portland, Ore., a bugler sounded taps and uniformed men fired rifles into the crisp air Monday to honor Staff Sgt. Ronald Lee Paulson. A civil-affairs officer and Army Reservist, Paulson was killed Oct. 17 by a roadside bomb. He was 53, the oldest American to die in the war in October. At Willamette National Cemetery on a hill high above the city, his widow, Beverly Paulson, accepted a folded Stars and Strips as bagpipes played.

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In Apex, N.C., the family of Army Maj. David G. Taylor Jr. filed into a red-brick funeral home Tuesday to plan his services, scheduled for Thursday. Taylor, 37, was the highest-ranking serviceman to die last month. He was killed when a roadside bomb exploded next to his Humvee in Baghdad Oct. 22 as he trained new arrivals.

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1. It is sad, but it is also sad that the UNITED STATES

STARTED a war against a country which had NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11

It is sad that we have KILLED OVER 100000 Iraqii civilians

It is sad that we have caused a civil war in that country

We have some very moral questions that most haven't even considered