GI Special 4F26: Terry Lisk - June 30, 2006

Thomas F. Barton

RAMADI, Iraq: A soldier was dead, and it was time for him to go home.The doors to the little morgue swung open, and six other soldiers stepped outside carrying a long black bag zippered at the top.About 60 soldiers were waiting to say goodbye. They had gathered in the sand outside this morgue at Camp Ramadi, an army base in Anbar Province, now the most lethal of Iraqi places.Inside the bag was Sergeant Terry Michael Lisk, 26, of Zion, Illinois, killed a few hours before.

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