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**ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, MARCH 16** **FILE** In this March 25, 2008 file photo U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Brian Flading, Platoon Sergeant for Blue Platoon, Killer Troop, relaxes at Combat Outpost Rabiy in Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Flading was sent home to recover from wounds after an April 30 roadside bomb attack that killed a comrade. Nearly six years after American troops invaded Iraq, the men of "Killer Blue" are home- matured, scarred, looking forward to resuming their lives, finding themselves suddenly startled by what used to be routine. Not everyone made it home. For those who did, their lives in Iraq and the deaths of men who became family have forever shaped their goals for the future and their sense of the kind of people they want to be.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)