The number of soldier fatalities in Afghanistan hit a grim record last month, with at least 43 American troops killed.
Among the dead is a 21-year-old Marine from Yarmouth Port, Mass., on Cape Cod. He had just returned from combat in Iraq when he volunteered to go to Afghanistan.
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