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Capt. Derek Herrera wanted to remain on active duty after a sniper's bullet in Afghanistan left him paralyzed two years ago.

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Bud Zumwalt took what he learned during the tumultuous 1960s with him when he became the nation's youngest chief of naval operations, earning a reputation as a reformer who fought racism and sexism and worked to improve the lives of sailors.

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Along the winding muddy waters of the Mekong Delta where he once patrolled for communist insurgents on a naval gunboat, Secretary of State John Kerry turned his sights yesterday on a new enemy: climate change.

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John J. Wilpers Jr., the last surviving member of the U.S. Army intelligence unit that captured former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo after World War II, has died at 93.

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John J. Wilpers Jr. went decades without publicly revealing details about his international headline-making exploits at the end of World War II, a string of silence befitting a former Army intelligence officer-turned-career CIA employee.

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Jack Emerson Brady, who survived the Bataan Death March in World War II and rose to the rank of major during 20 years in the Army, has died. He was 87.

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US Ambassador Kristie Kenney was expected to attend the funeral rites for Staff Sergeant Richwell Doria, but cancelled her trip at the last minute for unknown reasons.
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"He will never be forgotten, he served both the Philippines and the United States in the name of democracy," said US Chargé d’ Affaires Paul Jones during burial rites at the Polo Memorial Park in Palasan, Valenzuela City, adjacent to Garcia’s hometown of Obando.
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A Roman Catholic chapel near the childhood home of Army Sgt. Myla Maravillosa in the village of U-og in Inabanga town was too small to accommodate hundreds of people attending the funeral Mass.
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Bud Zumwalt took what he learned during the tumultuous 1960s with him when he became the nation's youngest chief of naval operations, earning a reputation as a reformer who fought racism and sexism and worked to improve the lives of sailors.

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Along the winding muddy waters of the Mekong Delta where he once patrolled for communist insurgents on a naval gunboat, Secretary of State John Kerry turned his sights yesterday on a new enemy: climate change.

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John J. Wilpers Jr., the last surviving member of the U.S. Army intelligence unit that captured former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo after World War II, has died at 93.

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John J. Wilpers Jr. went decades without publicly revealing details about his international headline-making exploits at the end of World War II, a string of silence befitting a former Army intelligence officer-turned-career CIA employee.

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Jack Emerson Brady, who survived the Bataan Death March in World War II and rose to the rank of major during 20 years in the Army, has died. He was 87.

[DatePublished] => 2008-08-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 373547 [Title] => Fil-Am soldier killed in Iraq buried with honors [Summary] => DAGUPAN CITY — Hundreds of Dagupeños turned out yesterday for the hero’s burial here of a Filipino-American soldier who was killed in Iraq last month while attempting to evacuate his wounded comrades.

US Ambassador Kristie Kenney was expected to attend the funeral rites for Staff Sergeant Richwell Doria, but cancelled her trip at the last minute for unknown reasons.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 320615 [Title] => Fil-Am pilot killed in Iraq buried with full military honors [Summary] => OBANDO, Bulacan — US Army Chief Warrant Officer II Ruel Garcia was laid to rest yesterday with full military honors as American officials paid tribute to the Filipino-American pilot who died in Iraq last month.

"He will never be forgotten, he served both the Philippines and the United States in the name of democracy," said US Chargé d’ Affaires Paul Jones during burial rites at the Polo Memorial Park in Palasan, Valenzuela City, adjacent to Garcia’s hometown of Obando.
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A Roman Catholic chapel near the childhood home of Army Sgt. Myla Maravillosa in the village of U-og in Inabanga town was too small to accommodate hundreds of people attending the funeral Mass.
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