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Rescuers Obituary

NPR
Published April 8, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Wendy Kaufman profiles the three U.S. Army Rangers who were killed in an apparent suicide bombing while trying to help a pregnant Iraqi woman. The three -- Army Capt. Russell Rippetoe, Spc. Ryan Long and Staff Sgt. Nino Livaudais -- were from Fort Benning, Ga. April 8, 2003

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