FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) Four of the nine soldiers killed when their helicopter went down in Iraq last month were memorialized Thursday as modest heroes dedicated to saving lives American and Iraqi.
"They asked for nothing and in a moment gave everything," Maj. William LaChance, commander of the 571st Medical Company based at Fort Carson, said in a letter read at a service attended by nearly 700 people.
The Jan. 8 crash near Fallujah killed five other U.S. soldiers whom the four-member medical evacuation team was taking for treatment.
Many soldiers, including LaChance, say they believed the helicopter was shot down, despite being marked with a red cross. The Army has not determined the cause of the crash, a Fort Carson spokesman said.
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