Marine, back from Iraq, shot dead in his home town

On leave from the violence he had survived in the war in Iraq, a young Marine was so wary of crime on the streets of his own home town that he carried only $8 to avoid becoming a robbery target. Despite his caution, Lance Cpl. Robert Crutchfield, 21, was shot point-blank in the neck during a robbery at a bus stop. Feeding and breathing tubes kept him alive 41/2 months, until he died of an infection on May 18.

/>I wonder how many such stories are out there. I had read a few years back of a Latin American Marine who was killed by gang members when he came home!