Camp Pendleton Regimental Combat Team 5 has lost 101 men in Iraq. Pics from memorial service today.

[Kadie]

A member of Marines Corps Regimental Combat Team 5, right, hangs dog tags on the rifles and boots that represent fallen comrades at a memorial service held at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in San Diego, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007. The combat team has lost 101 men over the past year during fighting in Iraq. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)


Marine Maj. Vaughn Ward of Regimental Combat Team 5 pays his respects in front of the rifles, boots and dog tags representing fallen comrades at a memorial service held at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, near San Diego, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007. The combat team has lost 101 men over the past year during fighting in Iraq. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)


Marines from Regimental Combat Team 5 bow their heads in front of an American flag during a moment of silence for their fallen comrades, at a memorial service at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007. The combat team has lost 101 men over the past year in fighting in Iraq. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)


Marines from Marine Corps Regimental Combat Team 5 fire a 21-Gun Salute for their fallen comrades at a memorial service held at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007. The combat team has lost 101 men over the past year during fighting in Iraq. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)


Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Lukas Bell, who was injured during fighting in Iraq, reacts during a memorial service held for fallen members of Marines Corps Regimental Combat Team 5 at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in San Diego Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007. The combat team has lost 101 men over the past year during fighting in Iraq. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)


K'Ann Hines, mother of Marine Corps Lance Cpl. John Michael Hines who was killed in Iraq, kisses her son's dog tags at a memorial service held for lost members of Regimental Combat Team 5 at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, near San Diego, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007. The combat team has lost 101 men over the past year during fighting in Iraq. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)


Cpl. Brian Reimers of Chino Hills, California, pays his respects to fallen comrades at a memorial at Camp Pendleton, in southern California to the casualties of Marines Corps Regimental Combat Team 5 during their recent 12-month deployment in al-Anbar Province in Iraq. REUTERS/Mark Avery (UNITED STATES)


Dog tags hang from a rifle as Marines of Regimental Combat Team 5 hold a memorial at Camp Pendleton, in southern California February 15, 2007 for the casualties of their recent 12-month deployment in al-Anbar Province in Iraq. REUTERS/Mark Avery (UNITED STATES)


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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. If only they had died for a real cause.

Their deaths were for nothing, a needless waste.

[Tin Man]

2. In downtown Oceanside, there's a chainlink fence - on which hangs 1000s of "dog tags"

...each representing one of the fallen.
Very sobering.

[Monkeyman]

3. Ten Hut Marine Reporting for Duty RIP Brothers and Sisters

[Kadie]

4. .

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