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Navajo soldier killed in Iraq during second tour
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Clifton Yazzie, a member of the Navajo Nation serving his second tour of duty in Iraq, was killed on Friday.
Yazzie, 23, leaves behind a wife and two young children, ages 3 and 18 months. "It's going to be hard raising them by myself," Michelle Yazzie, 21, told The Farmington Daily Times.
Yazzie came from a long line of veterans. He considered serving in the military his "job" and signed up for a second tour in Iraq last year.
Yazzie was a sergeant in the Army's 101st Airborne. He was killed when a roadside bomb exploded.
The Navajo Nation has lost at least five members in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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