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Gates adds sad, personal touch
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published March 19, 2007
WASHINGTON - Nearly every evening, Defense Secretary Robert Gates takes up a sad task: adding a few sentences to letters to the families of U.S. troops killed in Iraq. "I guess it's be-cause I feel a personal responsibility for each one of these men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country," Gates said Sunday when asked about the practice on Face the Nation on CBS. "And it's just - it is a small gesture to the families that I personally am involved and that I personally very much care and have great sorrow over the sacrifice that their son or daughter or husband or wife has made," he said. More than 250 U.S. deaths have occurred in Iraq since Gates was sworn in on Dec. 18.
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