He means Army Chief Warrant Officer Keith Yoakum, 41, one of Hemet's latest casualties.

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At Hemet High, five graduates' photos are on display in a memorial to fallen heroes.

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Small airplanes, including vintage World War II fliers, take off and land at the Hemet Ryan Airport.

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McCHESNEY: Melissa Hemet(ph), five cars back in the line, says she stumbled onto this station by accident.

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Hemet is a dusty desert town, two hours east of Los Angeles.

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In the back of our truck, Bulmaro Vasconcelos, a machine-gunner from Hemet, California, fired into the orchard with a heavy machine gun.

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Gabriel Necoshea, 17, is in Junior ROTC, and he said he was proud of all the Hemet High graduates who died in Iraq.

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Keith Yoakum and other Hemet High heroes will be soon be memorialized, when the Veterans of Foreign Wars name the local post after them.

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Much of the alleged abuse took place at the Gold Base, a Scientology outpost in the desert near Hemet, a town eighty miles southeast of Los Angeles.

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Ms. MELISSA HEMET: Luck of the draw actually.

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