Slain Seabee comes home

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Slain Seabee comes home

By PATRICK PETERSON

GULFPORT - Carried through a corridor of his shipmates, Seabee Chief Joel Baldwin, who died in Mosul, Iraq, on Dec. 21, came home to his family on Tuesday.

About 50 chiefs and officers, most of them veterans of the war in Iraq, stood at attention on either side of an aisle as his flag-draped casket was carried by an honor guard from the airplane to a hearse, where about 20 family members waited.

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Baldwin, a 37-year-old builder chief, was likely on a survey trip in Mosul when he was killed by a suicide bomber who attacked U.S. troops in a mess tent on Dec. 21. He was the second Seabee from Gulfport to die in Iraq.

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The funeral will be at 1 p.m. on Thursday at Northwood Christian Center, O'Neal Road in Gulfport. Burial will follow in Biloxi National Cemetery. Memorials can be sent to a fund at Keesler Federal Credit Union.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/10518323.htm

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1. How really sad it all is

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