Travis R. Bruce

Travis R. Bruce wrote home about the close calls, including the night someone dressed like an American soldier tossed a bomb into a nearby tent.

A member of the Military Police, he was apprehensive about his second tour in Iraq. The first time, he guarded U.S. administrator Paul Bremer and other VIPs. This time, he guarded Saddam Hussein's palaces.

Bruce, 22, of Byron, Minn., was killed March 23, 2005, in Baghdad when a mortar round detonated near his position guarding an Iraqi police station. He was based at Fort Lewis. His father, Kenneth, lives in Vancouver.

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