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From: The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Date: 20060517
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MERRILL (AP) -- Pfc. Grant Allen Dampier wanted to do something special for his three young daughters -- so he joined the U.S. Army.

"He joined so his kids would look up to him," his wife Heidi Dampier said Tuesday. "He wanted to be their hero."

The 25-year-old GI from Merrill was one of two U.S. soldiers killed when his Humvee hit a roadside bomb Monday in Balad, Iraq, which is 50 miles north of Baghdad. Staff Sgt. Marion Flint Jr., 29, of Baltimore, Md., also was killed, according to the Pentagon.

Both were members of the 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 3rd ...

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