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Medic with compassion laid to rest.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-MAR-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Medic with compassion laid to rest.(General News)(Army Sgt. Nicholas Lightner, 29, is honored by friends and family at a memorial service attended by hundreds in Newport on Friday)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard

NEWPORT - He conquered mountain bike trails and high school wrestlers. He protected the Toledo Boomers' quarterback as an offensive lineman and reveled in the mud of the Oregon outdoors. He was big and quiet and strong.

It took a land mine to bring down 29-year-old Sgt. Nicholas Lightner, a U.S. Army medic in Iraq. And, even as he lay on his deathbed at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C., Lightner worried more about the soldiers he could have helped than his own impending fate.

"He said he was sad he was unable...

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