A look back at the invasion of Iraq

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Retired Lt. Col. Joe Rippetoe and his wife, Rita, accept a flag that covered the casket of their son, Capt. Russell Rippetoe, during his funeral April 10, 2003, at Arlington National Cemetery. Rippetoe was killed in Iraq when a car bomb exploded at a checkpoint.