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The 31 British soldiers killed in Iraq are to be honoured by their comrades at a special service in the Gulf. Hundreds of troops are expected to attend the memorial service at a British military base near Basra on Sunday. It will be the first time soldiers still serving in Iraq will have gathered to pay tribute to those killed in the war. The service was the idea of Staff Sergeant John Landy, who was moved when he read about the wife of a Royal Marine who gave birth to their second child 12 days after her husband was killed...

Dorothy Oxendine presides over American Gold Star Mothers Inc., a national organization of women whose sons and daughters have died in military service to the nation. (Photo by Mark Abraham) AMERICAN IDENTITY With the Iraq War, a New Generation of Gold Star Mothers BY DELIA M. RIOS More stories by Delia M. Rios WASHINGTON -- As Dorothy Oxendine knows, the most dreaded words a parent can hear are "We regret to inform you ..." She lost her only son, Pfc. Willie F. Oxendine III, to a land mine in Vietnam on May 30, 1968. His death at age 21...

Miyuki Cawley, the wife of U.S. Marine Staff Sgt James Cawley, holds the flag from her husband's casket in her lap during graveside services at the Roy City Cemetery Thursday, April 10, 2003 in Roy, Utah. Cawley died March 29, 2003 while serving in Iraq and also was a member of the Salt Lake City police force. Bishop Jaime Soto is shown Friday, April 11, 2003, at St. Joaquim Catholic Church in Costa Mesa, Calif., at the funeral of U.S. Marine Cpl. Jose A. Garibay, shown in foreground. Garibay was killed March 23, 2003, after encountering Iraqi troops near...

Captain Guy's wife, Helen, above, gave birth to their daughter, Emily, 12 days after her father died A SMALL market town on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales fell quiet yesterday as almost 3,000 people stood in silent tribute to a fallen Royal Marines officer. Among the mourners was the ten-day-old daughter he did not live to see. Helen Guy gave birth to Emily Charlotte 12 days after her father was killed in a helicopter crash in the Kuwaiti desert. It was to have been Captain Philip Guy’s final mission before he returned to Britain for the birth of...

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.