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 COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - For weeks, Chief Warrant Officer Jason DeFrenn's family awaited his homecoming, a trip planned as much more than a simple respite from his second tour in Iraq: The nine-year Army veteran was returning to South Carolina to help his wife give birth.
Instead, his loved ones are making plans for the 34-year-old Army pilot's funeral. DeFrenn's Apache helicopter was shot down on Feb. 2 — two weeks before he was supposed to be back in his native state.
Wracked by grief, his wife went into labor early, giving birth to a boy just days after her husband's death.
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