GI death adds to bloody August
U.S. troop toll for month at 44 in Afghanistan
Posted: August 28, 2009 at 4 a.m.
A U.S. Marine pays his respects to a fallen comrade, killed earlier this month in a Taliban ambush, during a memorial service Thursday at a forward operating base in Now Zad in Afghanistan's Helmand province.
A roadside bomb and gunfire attack killed a U.S. serviceman in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, a death that pushed August into a tie with July as the deadliest months of the eight-year war.
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