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A homicide bomber detonated a car laden with explosives late last week killing 15.

Photo by Brittany Murray / Staff Photographer 5/18/13 - World War II veterans wave to the crowd during the 54th Annual Armed Forces Day parade in Torrance, California.

Florencia Aviles Marine Corps Pfc. Florencia Aviles has graduated from recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot in Parris Island, S.C. Aviles, the daughter of Florencia and Martin Aviles of Yuma, is a 2012 graduate of Cibola High School.

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U.S. Marine Corps veteran Sgt. Edward S. Passetto was laid to rest on Friday morning, earning acknowledgment from God, his country and his local community.

The two had known each other less than three weeks when they found themselves inside helicopters about to land off a Cambodian island, and were easy targets for a firestorm of Khmer Rouge bullets and rocket-propelled grenades.

As a young Marine electronics technician at Camp Lejeune in the mid-1970s, the Massachusetts man figured he'd dumped hundreds of gallons of toxic solvents onto the ground.

Purple wildflowers sprout in abundance around the bright-yellow pipe, one of several jutting from the sandy soil in this unassuming patch of grass and mud.

A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals.

As she flipped through the cemetery register, Mary Blakely's eyes filled with tears.

The Albany Police Department said goodbye to patrol office Marvin Jennings in February as he left for training camp, and now the officer is set to deploy to Afghanistan in June.

He was born March 14, 1921, in Silver Creek, N.Y., the son of the late Albert and Anna Kohler Jacobs.

South Lebanon Township resident Robert Knutson, left, and fellow former Marine Millard Bam Westfall hold the customized AR-10 rifle Knutson was given for helping to save Westfall s life in Afghanistan.

When Cpl. David Sonka was training his military dogs, he was fulfilling a lifelong dream, mourners recalled as they celebrated the fallen Marine's life at a memorial service Thursday morning .

Brad L. Clarkson, 56, of 428 Winsor St., died Monday, May 13, 2013, at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hamot in Erie.

Lance Cpl. Brandon King, a driver with Delta Company, 1st Tank Battalion, performs maintenance on an M1 Abrams Tank at Forward Operating Base Shir Ghazay, Afghanistan, April 5, 2013.

Retired Col. Allan Cruz, USMC, and Chief Johnny Johnson, World War II Navy veteran, will be the guest speakers at the 72nd annual Memorial Day observance, "Never to be Forgotten," on May 27 at the Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno.

Retired military working dog Siebert L515 sits for a portrait in his family's backyard in Hanover on Thursday, May 9. (Shelby Mack Siebert, a 10-year-old lab, loves to play fetch and chew on his red Kong toy.

The Marine Corps Association & Foundation provides the "Chesty" Puller Recruit Company Honor Graduate Award for each graduating company at the Parris Island and San Diego Recruit Depots.

Ronnie Lee DeMaggio lost a fierce and courageous battle against lung cancer on May 8, 2013.