Marines battle to protect slain comrades on ill-fated patrol

Monday, June 5, 2006

Editor's note: Associated Press correspondent Todd Pitman, who was embedded for three weeks with the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment in Ramadi, Iraq, continues the story of an ill-fated patrol.

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