Muqdadiya, Iraq, Dec. 7, 2006: Spc. David Flowers, 31, of Baltimore and the 15th Engineer Company, stands beside an upturned road grader moments after he tumbled down an embankment inside the piece of heavy equipment during a route sanitation mission.

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