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ARTICLE 1:
Death makes politics personal in Ohio

Family joins those hit by news from Iraq

Thursday, August 04, 2005

By Connie Schultz: Newhouse News Service

CLEVELAND -- As Jeanette Schroeder rounded the corner of her front yard with the lawn mower, she spotted two Marines standing at her brother Paul Schroeder's front door Wednesday.

Immediately, she knew...

ARTICLE 2:
War becomes "a little more personal" for Ohio town

By Seattle Times news services

Army reservist Sgt. Eric Lynn clips prayer cards yesterday on memorials near the entrance of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, headquarters in Ohio.

The news reached Ohio long before the names of the dead. A thunderous explosion, an armored vehicle blown apart, another clutch of reservists from the 3rd Battalion of the 25th Marine Regiment killed in the Iraqi maelstrom.

ARTICLE 3:
Cleveland suburb reeling after battalion suffers casualties
BY MICHAEL MARTINEZ AND SEAN HAMILL: Chicago Tribune

CLEVELAND - (KRT) - Since May, parents like Rosemary Palmer have anxiously watched the death toll grow steadily in Iraq among a 1,000-Marine reservist unit that includes her son.

ARTICLE 4:
Bomb toll worst of Iraq War
14 more Ohio Marines killed in light vehicle

By ROBERT H. REID: Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Fourteen U.S. Marines were killed Wednesday when a huge bomb destroyed their lightly armored vehicle, hurling it into the air in a giant fireball in the deadliest roadside bombing suffered by American forces in the Iraq War.

ARTICLE 5:
No early pullout amid Iraq carnage
Correspondents in Washington and Baghdad

August 05, 2005 US President George W. Bush has rejected any early pullout from Iraq following the deadliest roadside bomb attack on US forces in Iraq since the 2003 invasion.

ARTICLE 6:
Marine deaths a 'grim reminder': Bush

US President George W Bush has called the death of 14 Marines in a roadside bombing a "grim reminder".

A civilian translator was also killed and one Marine was wounded in the attack on Wednesday.

Bush called the attack a "grim reminder" that the United States was still at war.

ARTICLE 7:
Military Ops Along Euphrates River Prompt Deadly Attacks
By Kathleen T. Rhem: American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2005 – "A very lethal and, unfortunately, adaptive enemy" is responsible for the deaths of 21 U.S. Marines in Iraq over the past three days, a senior military officer said here today.