The attacker, Wade Michael Page, was a 40-year-old former soldier-turned-front man for a white supremacist rock band.
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Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon - himself a former soldier - said the move would relieve the suffering of the soldiers' relatives but that it was not a "wise" thing to do.
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If we do -- if we keep their legacy alive, if we keep faith with the freedoms they died to defend -- then we can imagine a day, decades from now, when another child sits down at his desk, ponders the true meaning of heroism and finds inspiration in the story of a soldier -- Staff Sergeant Robert J.
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An example of this is Daniel Inouye, a much-decorated ex-soldier of the famous Japanese-Hawaiian 442nd Regiment, who became the state's first congressman and was then elected to the Senate in 1962.
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The collision happened on the winding A487 at Pantperthog, north of Machynlleth, when the lance corporal and another serviceman - identified only as Soldier A - were on an advance trained course supervised by PC Keith Young of the West Mercia Police force.
John, a thirty-one-year-old soldier stationed in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, had been using the Internet for less than a year.
There is also an intriguing outside mural - drawn by some bored German soldier - of a man in a boater hat smoking a pipe.
Mr Williams said the portrait - entitled Soldier Number 2 - took him about two or three weeks to paint using oils.
Case in point: the "adopt-a-soldier" program he asked them to organize at their church in December so that his troops -- all 160 of them -- could have a wrapped present in Kuwait in time for Christmas.
The US soldier - who has not been named or charged - was flown to Kuwait on Wednesday.
But since the 1970s, Americans have been adept at distinguishing the individual soldier - and his or her presumed heroism and gallantry - from the cause.
Apart from the airport ceremonies that are attended by senior officers, the motorcade to the soldier's home town evokes strong sentiments of an appreciative nation - no-one seems to bother about how lowly the soldier's rank was - his death at the front line had raised him into the ranks of the venerated.
And the large-bladed, distinctively shaped Bowie Knife--designed by and named for legendary American pioneer and soldier Jim Bowie--is used for everything from camping to fishing to fighting.
The result is a compact unit with two Humvee-size primary wheels for one soldier or more and up to a 2, 000-pound pallet of gear, extending with today's technologies into also being a soldier's ready robot - big robot - to take on high risk tasks, scouting maneuvers, resupply or deception tactics.
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He is a tall, quiet, squared-away ex-soldier who served in Afghanistan.
And this is the reason that - like a soldier named Leroy Petry - America doesn't simply endure, we emerge from our trials stronger, more confident, with our eyes fixed on the future.
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The soldier's commanding officer earlier described him as "the perfect example of a Highland soldier - loyal and fiercely courageous".
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The 38-year-old soldier said he was given the gun as a present while serving in Iraq.
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The life of the 23-year-old soldier was not in danger, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
The French defence ministry said the 32-year-old soldier was killed between Zaouaten and Boughessa near the border with Algeria.
He is a 21-year-old soldier, a member of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky.
And a 17-year-old soldier went missing after falling in a river during a march near Catterick Garrison army base in North Yorkshire.
The 23-year-old soldier, from Newcastle, leaves his father Garry, mother Olywn and fiancee Hayley, whom he was due to marry in July after the tour.
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The order was organized on military lines of soldier-priests uniquely at the Pope's orders.
His commanding officer described him as "the perfect example of a Highland soldier - loyal and fiercely courageous".
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According to Bruce Bairnsfather, one of the most popular soldier-writers of the first world war, the Tommies were just as hardheaded.
The ambitions of these two men, one the ruler of his country, the other a junior partner in a team of English soldier-adventurers, soon intersected.
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