Va. Marine Dies 3 Weeks Before Iraq Tour Was to End

[Judi Lynn]

Va. Marine Dies 3 Weeks Before Iraq Tour Was to End

By Allan Lengel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 26, 2006; Page B03

Sgt. Sean Miles was a tough Marine with a soft heart.

Last summer, just before shoving off for Iraq, Miles phoned his older brother back home in Virginia and asked him to "keep an eye" on his 2 1/2 -year old son, Tyler, in case the unthinkable happened.

"I didn't want to talk about it," said Christopher Miles of Midlothian, where the family had moved in 1990 from New York. "I felt talking about it would jinx it, but it was something he wanted to talk about."
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Sean Miles, 28, was killed by small-arms fire while conducting combat operations in Karmah, Iraq, just three weeks before he was scheduled to complete his seven-month tour.
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