Instantly, the news from Pakistan became a local story

Friday, January 11, 2002

It's at times like this you realize that freedom is not free. -- Bill Harkey, Cape Girardeau, retired Army lieutenant colonel and father-in-law of a Marine pilot who died in Pakistan this week.

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