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July is deadliest for U.S. in war

By DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE PRESS SERVICES

Posted: July 31, 2010 at 6:11 a.m.

Credit: The Associated Press
U.S. soldiers stand guard Friday as a medical helicopter arrives to evacuate an injured soldier near Kandahar, Afghanistan.

The deaths of at least 66 soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen have made July the deadliest month for U.S. troops in the nine-year war in Afghanistan.

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