Marine killed by explosion in Afghanistan

latimes.com (1 year and 1 month ago)

May 6, 2012

Staff Sgt. Stephen J. Dunning of the Bay Area had been a quiet, contemplative boy who liked working with his hands. His cool-under-pressure demeanor served him well as a bomb disposal technician.In a second-grade homework assignment, Stephen J. Dunning wrote about his future in a passage that would be as brief as it was portentous. He wanted to go to college and he wanted to become a United States Marine. full story

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