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this story from a couple of weeks ago:


By PATRICIA M.MURRET, Capital News Service

Marine Cpl. Jennifer M. Parcell. Killed in Iraq.WASHINGTON - On "My Space," a Web site where members profile their life and loves, post messages and reach out through e-mail, Marine Cpl. Jennifer M. Parcell beams from a photo next to a caption saying, "Going to be chillin' in Iraq for awhile."

Down to just a couple weeks left in her service in Iraq, Parcell, 20, of Bel Air, was killed Wednesday while supporting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Defense officials said Thursday. Now her My Space page is rapidly filling with tributes to the slender 5-foot-2-inch lover of Jimmy Buffett and the Texas band Bowling for Soup.

"We're just all very much in shock," said Parcell's cousin, Candace Atwood. "She had just told us that she was coming home."

On Jan. 29, the last day she logged into her "My Space" account, Parcell sent Atwood an e-mail saying that she had "just 22 days left" before departing Iraq for good and returning to Camp Pendleton, Calif., for another year of service, Atwood said.

"She was really looking forward to being in California . . . She joined the Marines mainly to travel, and she was really looking forward to doing that," Atwood said. She'd planned to leave the Marines at the end of her California tour.

A landing support specialist for 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Parcell often assisted in transferring supplies, food and ammunition.

Wednesday evening, her family was told by Marine officials that she was killed along with other Marines by a suicide bomber during a sensitive mission at a military checkpoint, said Ray Fender, a spokesman for the family.

Though the family does not know the details of what occurred, Fender said they were told Parcell was searching Iraqi women for explosives and had been able to detect a bomber.

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http://somd.com/news/headlines/2007/5376.shtml

Contrast this quiet local story with incessant national coverage of ANS and the bimbo from American Idol.

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[MADem]

1. Heart wrenching.

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