Michael E. Tayaotao, 27
Tayaotao died when a bomb he was trying to defuse instead exploded. As a child, he welcomed a cousin who immigrated from the Philippines. That cousin, now a naval officer, escorted Tayaotao's body home to California from Delaware.
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