Maj. Megan M. McClung, of Coupeville, Wash., died Dec. 6 in Al Anbar province

[GreatAmerican]

<p>Published in the Orange County Register:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/article_1385846.php[/url]”>http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/article_1385846.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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The death of Marine Maj. Megan McClung in Iraq earlier this month shook up a lot of people, inside and outside the Marine Corps.</p>

<p>That was partly because Maj. McClung, 34, a graduate of Mission Viejo High School and the U.S. Naval Academy, was widely known and widely liked, not only in the Marine Corps but also among the many journalists she assisted in Iraq – me included – in her job as a Marine public affairs officer. The news that this vital young woman had been killed by a roadside bomb in Ramadi was hard to accept…

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