(Heath Druzin/Stars and Stripes)

Heath Druzin/Stars and StripesAfghanistan, April, 2010: A soldier touches the boot of Spc. Chris Workman at a memorial ceremony at Kandahar Air Field for four soldiers killed in a Black Hawk helicopter crash in Helmand province. Workman was the door gunner on the flight, which was escorting a medevac chopper on a mission to pick up Afghan policemen wounded in a bombing.

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