Family grieves for local soldier killed in Iraq
When Capt. Jason Hamill was in Baghdad, he used to show the local Iraqis a picture of his nephew, a toddler whom he’d promised to teach baseball when he got a little older. He would say the boy was his son because he knew how much children were valued in Iraqi culture. While Jason had a wife in Texas, he didn’t want to have kids until he could be there to watch them grow up.
When Hamill, 31, was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq on Nov. 26 of last year, he was just six hours away from going home. Another six hours and he would have been out of the Army forever, after 12 years of...
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