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Widow says Marine didn't want her tears

By John R. Ellement
Globe Staff / October 7, 2006

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MALDEN -- Before he went to Iraq, Marine Lance Corporal Edward M. Garvin, 19, told his family that if he did not return, they should laugh, not cry, in his memory. (Full article: 615 words)

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