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<p>It didn't matter what you put in Robert A. Monaco's hands -- a canoe paddle, a garden shovel, or the controls of a King Air B200 twin-engine airplane. So long as it kept him busy, he was at his happiest, friends and family said.</p>

<p>M. Anthony Fisher didn't live to see U.S. troops liberate Baghdad. But while he breathed, America's soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines had no better friend. So the plane crash in Massachusetts that last week took Tony and his wife, Anne, from their five children also robbed hundreds of thousands of military families, past and present, of one of their truest champions.</p>