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In Iraq, mortuary unit cares for fallen.(Chicago Tribune)
Byline: Evan Osnos
TAQADDUM, Iraq _ Jim Patterson had seen painful things.
But nothing quite prepared him for the day he arrived at a battle scene and an officer handed him a worn slip of paper found deep in the clothing of a Marine killed hours earlier. Patterson unfolded it to find the printout of an ultrasound, the hazy outline of an unborn child who never will meet his father.
"I'm not an old man, but I'm an old Marine," Patterson, a plainspoken 36-year-old with a blond crew cut, said later. "And I've aged a lot in a short period of time."
At this U.S. base near Fallujah, Patterson heads a small, obscure military unit with a ...
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- In Iraq, mortuary unit cares for fallen.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) June 1, 2004 700+ words
...Osnos TAQADDUM, Iraq _ Jim Patterson had seen painful...near Fallujah, Patterson heads a small...mortuary affairs" in Iraq's bloodiest region...affairs specialists in Iraq; today there are...since the invasion, Patterson's crew has processed...
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...far by US forces in Iraq are due to IEDs...Corps Maj. Bruce Patterson, director of the...the insurgency in Iraq has caused as much...years to do, Maj. Patterson said a British Army...are unguarded in Iraq, it would blow your mind," Maj. Patterson said. "And if they...
