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A flag, a yellow ribbon for a fallen Green Beret Sgt. 1st Class Peter P. Tycz II was killed in crash of U.S. military plane in Afghanistan.Terry Harnden, center, is comforted by loved ones after learning that her son, Sgt. 1st Class Peter P. Tycz II, had been killed while on duty. Their phone was ringing off the hook Thursday. Cars choked the street in the City of Tonawanda neighborhood and a crowd of family and high school buddies spilled from the house into the yard, where a small American flag is staked near a tree ringed with yellow ribbon....

Coast Guard helicopters found the bodies of three Fort Lewis soldiers in the waters of Willapa Bay yesterday, a day after the men went on a weekend fishing trip. Sgt. 1st Class David Eville and his friends, 1st Sgt. Howard Hinkle and Sgt. 1st Class Robert Hulin, launched Eville's 20-foot power boat from the boat ramp at Westport Saturday morning, Coast Guard Petty Officer Robert Lanier said. All three wore flotation devices. Eville's wife later told investigators the men had planned to go fishing. The bodies were turned over to the Pacific County Coroner's Office, but no cause of death...