Drowned Soldier Found After Two Weeks

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031224/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_finding_bates&cid=540&ncid=1473

BAGHDAD, Iraq - It was almost midnight on Dec. 10 when Staff Sgt. Aaron Reese stood up in his patrol boat, lost his balance and fell overboard. As Reese was swept away by the turgid Tigris River, his patrol mate, Spc. Todd Bates, plunged in to rescue him.


Both men, from the Army's 135th Military Police Company based in the Cleveland suburb of Brook Park, drowned. snip


Iraqi police divers had recovered Reese, a 31-year-old father of two from the central Ohio town of Reynoldsburg, on the muddy bottom of the Tigris, not far from the site he patrolled: the palace headquarters of U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer.


But Bates, an affable 20-year old from the southeastern Ohio town of Bellaire, was hard to find.


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[JaySherman]

1. Merry X-mas. Ugh.

When will it ever stop? If you pray, say a special Christmas prayer that this nightmare ends.