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    USAF Staff Sgt.Phillip A. Meyers

    For the first time in 18 years, the media ban against pictures of fallen U.S. service members returning home has been lifted. The first photo is that of United States Air Force Staff Sargent Phillip A. Meyers killed in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan on Saturday.

    Richard Chemel
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