Aug 08
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Not long after Staff Sgt. Matthew D. Blaskowski was killed by a sniper's bullet last Sept. 23 in eastern Afghanistan, his mother received an e-mail message with a link to a video on the Internet.
A television reporter happened to have been filming a story at Blaskowski's small mountain outpost when it came under fire. Since then, Blaskowski's parents, Cheryl and Terry Blaskowski of Cheboygan, Mich., have watched their 27-year-old son die over and over. Cheryl Blaskowski has taken breaks from work to watch it on her computer, sometimes several times a day, studying her son's last movements. "Anything to be closer," she said. "To see what could have been different, how it" -- the bullet -- "happened to find him." For months, they felt alone in watching their son die in a nearly forgotten war...|
A grim toll -- of sons and daughters -- has brought back public ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 37 minutes ago
A soldier has been hit: Blaskowski. A medevac helicopter swoops in to evacuate him to a larger base, but he is declared dead en route. ...
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