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LOS ALAMITOS He had trained for this but no amount of training could fully prepare him for it. This was U.S. Marine Isidro Cervantes' first mission of the kind -- to inform a Yorba Linda father that his only son died fighting for his country. Cervantes played the key words from the incident report over in his head, working to commit them to memory. Explosion. March 24. Killed in Action. Afghanistan. The words needed to come out smoothly and confident, yet compassionate. As he walked to the door he saw the garage open. Inside, a man was crying. Cervantes wanted...

JOE ALLOWAY PREDICTED WINNER OVER PAVLOV IN MICHIGAN 81 –POLL: JOE ALLOWAY’S EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE BEATS OUT PHIL PAVLOV PORT HURON, MI, July 26, 2004 (NEWSWIRE) -- The latest poll of voters in this crucial MichiganState House swing District 81 has Joe Alloway-R (Port Huron Township) the predicted winner over St. Clair’s Phil Pavlov, and Yale’s Steve Pray with a greater than 9-percent margin. The poll of 600 likely Republican voters in St. Clair County Michigan’s State Representative District 81 countywide found Alloway with a solid lead with Education, Experience and USMC background over underqualified Phil Pavlov-R (St. Clair).