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  • Iraq's toll on state is worst since 2005

    10/04/2007 8:47:32 AM PDT · by dnmore · 6 replies · 325+ views
    Orlando Slantinel ^ | October 4, 2007 | Darryl E. Owens
    The past three months in Iraq have been the deadliest stretch for Florida's fighting men and women since 2005. From July through September, 15 service members who called Florida home were killed in Iraq -- including six last month. "Yes, they're Marines, they're Army, but they're our babies, too," said Donna Hunsicker, 41, mother of Marine Cpl. Christopher L. Poole Jr., killed when a suicide bomber steered a vehicle into a security checkpoint. U.S. service members are doing their job, she said, but their duty is complicated by the fact that "they don't want us over there anymore." "These people...