Age 25. 1st lieutenant. U.S. Marine Corps. 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force
Hostile fire, Anbar province
Before he left for Iraq, Shaun Blue never talked about the war with his friends. He didn't need to. "We all knew where each other stood," says Mike Bell, a fellow Marine who attended the University of Southern California with Blue. They were juniors when the war began. "All of us wanted to go. All of us wanted to be there."
Blue had considered dropping out of college to enlist in the Marines rather than finishing school and...
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