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• Washington flags lower for slain soldier

  April 15, 2010 in City Gov. Chris Gregoire has directed agencies to lower flags at state buildings to half staff today in memory of a Washington soldier killed Sunday by an improvised bomb in Afghanistan. 8

• Family says Fort Lewis soldier was murdered

  November 25, 2009 in Region The family of a Fort Lewis soldier who died in a non-combat shooting in Iraq says she was killed execution-style, with a bullet in the back of the head.

• Texas gunman hit two from region

  November 7, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 George Stratton III, of Post Falls, ducked for cover after hearing a deafening spray of gunfire at the Soldier Readiness Center on Thursday at Fort Hood, Texas. When he peeked …

• Soldier’s Idaho town kept mum on Taliban capture

  July 20, 2009 in Idaho Shortly after the first report two weeks ago that a U.S. soldier had been captured in Afghanistan, a small circle of people in this central Idaho town found out it …