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[noamnety]

After Tarique Thompson dunked in his high school's basketball game Friday, he pointed to the sky. But the basket was the last thing on his mind. Instead, Thompson, a freshman on Fayetteville Christian's varsity basketball team, was thinking of his older brother, Pfc. Gifford Hurt, a soldier stationed in Iraq who died just days before the game.

Hurt's and Thompson's mother, Lisa Davis, wanted to be at that game, but she couldn't go. Instead, Davis was at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, waiting for her son's body.

No one was surprised when Hurt, of Yonkers N.Y., decided on an Army career and enlisted a year ago at age 18. "All of our friends are in the military, and that's all he knew," said his mother, Lisa Davis.

His funeral marked the one year anniversary of his enlistment in the Army.

Jan 20, 2010