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Day of Remembrance Just Another Day on the Job for U.S. Troops in Iraq

At Combat Outpost 881 in southwest Baghdad, every day is a sort of Memorial Day. "One of my best friends got killed here in 2005," Sgt. Robert Scott told ABC News from his small bedroom. "Several friends got killed, actually. I think about them every day." "One of my really close friends, Spc. Tucker, he was a good friend of mine," Pvt. Matthew Brown told ABC News, sitting in the outpost's mess hall. "I got the news about him, and that was really hard. But you know, I'm just trying to... Full Story
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