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Died Nov. 14 in San Antonio of wounds suffered Oct. 25 in Baghdad when the vehicle he was in struck a makeshift bomb. [source: Faces of the Fallen]
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Newport News Guardsman Dies of Wounds Inflicted by Iraqi Bomb
  (The Washington Post, Nov. 16, 2007)