News of the Week

The big news this week, which you can avoid only by turning off everything electronic in your house, is the somehow unsurprising revelation that Britney Spears' sister, age 16, is pregnant.

And in a brief, hardly noticed mention found in 'Field Notes', which NBC News describes as 'stories that don't always make the headlines':

Arlington National Cemetery Buries Its 400th Iraq Casualty


Chief Petty Officer Mark T. Carter, 27, of Fallbrook, CA, died Dec. 11, as a result of enemy action while conducting combat operations in Iraq. 

 

He was permanently assigned as an East Coast-based Navy SEAL.

Chief Petty Officer Mark Carter

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