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US Marines in the cargo hold of a commercial plane at the Reno-Tahoe Airport, preparing the coffin of 2nd Lt. James J. Cathey, killed by an IED after only one month in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom, to descend on the luggage conveyor belt to his family. August 2005.

US Marines in the cargo hold of a commercial plane at the Reno-Tahoe Airport, preparing the coffin of 2nd Lt. James J. Cathey, killed by an IED after only one month in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom, to descend on the luggage conveyor belt to his family. August 2005.

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