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By Alissa J. Rubin / The Bulletin
April 15, 2010
KORENGAL OUTPOST, Afghanistan — The last American soldier left here Wednesday, abandoning a base surrounded by tall cedar trees and high mountains, in a place that came to be called the “Valley of Death.”
The near daily battles here were won, but almost always at the cost of wounded or dead. And....