Linda Taggart doesn't claim to be an expert in music. ...more

December 6, 2008

Bruce Humphrey didn't know the driver's name, but as he watched the tanker truck fall over the bridge and burst into flames on the road below, one thing quickly became clear: the man was a fighter. ...more

June 6, 2008

The young Marine came back from the war, with his toughest fight ahead of him. Merlin German waged that battle in the quiet of a Texas hospital, far from the dusty road in Iraq where a bomb exploded, leaving him with burns over 97 percent of his body. ...more

May 26, 2008

A Marine sergeant who became a symbol of resilience as he strove to recover from a roadside bomb blast in Iraq that blanketed 97 percent of his body with burns has died, the Defense Department said. He was 22. ...more

May 3, 2008