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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Greg Jaffe / The Bulletin
July 20, 2010
WASHINGTON — The 300-pound bomb blasted Marine Staff Sgt. James Ownbey’s mine-resistant truck so high that it snapped power lines before it slammed to the dusty ground in western Iraq.
Ownbey, knocked briefly unconscious by the blast, awoke to suffocating black smoke and a swirling cloud of....