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Almost every night, Betsy Coffin of Kennebunk, Maine, thinks about that day her husband died on a Baghdad highway in summer 2003. Army 1st Sgt. Christopher Coffin was riding in a truck that swerved to avoid two Iraqi vehicles. The truck plunged into a deep pit, where a dying Coffin was swarmed by Iraqis who stole his wedding ring. For the widow, more than two years later, the questions aren't settled. Was it an accident turned ugly, as the Army initially found — and the Department of Defense Inspector General concluded earlier this year in another review? Or was the...

Names of the four US Marines who died in yesterday's helicopter crash: Maj. Jay Thomas Aubin, 36, of Waterville, Maine Capt. Ryan Anthony Beaupre, 30, of Bloomington, Ill. Cpl. Brian Matthew Kennedy, 25, of Houston, Texas Staff Sgt. Kendall Damon Watersbey, 29, of Baltimore, Md. The Pentagon has just released the names of two more US Marines who were killed in Iraq. I'll post as soon as I find that.