"I just want to tell the families I love these guys. They're a
part of me."
Source: Marine Lance Corporal Buck Gates,
describing his effort to memorialize the men killed aboard a USMC
CH-53 that went down in Iraq over the weekend. In all, 27 of the 28
people aboard the Sea Stallion were from his base in Hawaii.
Forty-four years after the island state itself was struck by a
Japanese sneak attack, families and friends of those who died
aboard the Sea Stallion paid their respects to those killed in the
weekend downing of the Marine helicopter.
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