I was rereading a Thursday story on Army Staff Sgt. Matthew J. Taylor, the local man who was gunned down while patrolling Baghdad and this line struck me.
Taylor was scheduled to get out of the Army before his deployment to Iraq, but the military extended his service so he could deploy, said his wife, Randi Taylor. “He wasn’t supposed to be there.”
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