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Dresden, Ohio, 2010: Steve Harper stands at the grave of his son Brad Harper, who was killed in Iraq in 2005. The cemetery in Dresden, Ohio, just north of Zanesville, overlooks the football field where Brad played in high school. The school has his away jersey framed in the commons. Steve Harper and his wife, Janet, visit a couple of times a week. They sometimes find mementoes left by others, such as a Marine Corps dog tag. Read more here.