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Las Vegas mom recalls soldier ‘who wanted to serve his whole life’

Suni Erlanger said when her son was in a foxhole getting shot at he’d be cracking jokes because he wanted to put his fellow soldiers at ease. “Everybody loved him,” the Las Vegas woman said about Army Spc. Douglas J. Green, who was killed Wednesday in Afghanistan.

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Air Force pilot killed in Nevada mourned in N.D.

WEST FARGO, N.D. — Friends and acquaintances of an Air Force pilot who died in a jet crash while training in Nevada last month gathered on a North Dakota football field to remember him.

Washington Digest: Congress extends expiring Patriot Act tools

WASHINGTON — Congress voted last week to extend three expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act that President Barack Obama said were critically needed national security tools.

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