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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Posted by Mike Gilbert @ 11:00:45 am
The Los Angeles Times has a good story today about Darrell Griffin, Sr., father of a Fort Lewis Stryker soldier killed in Iraq last March.
The elder Griffin went to Iraq himself to research a book he is writing about his son, Staff Sgt. Darrell Griffin, Jr., who died March 21 in Baghdad.

