The campaign in Iraq has claimed a soldier believed to be the second American
Jewish military casualty. David Bernstein, 24, of Phoenixville, Pa., a first
lieutenant with the U.S. Army’s 173rd Airborne Infantry Brigade based in Camp
Ederle, Italy, was killed in Taza, Iraq, when enemy forces ambushed his patrol
with rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire. Bernstein’s father,
Richard, called his son “an athlete and a scholar” who graduated fifth in the
class of 2001 at the U.S. Military Academy, the New York Daily News said. “He was
an exceptional man and a wonderful person,” the elder Bernstein, now a
Knoxville, Tenn., resident, told the Pottstown Mercury, a local newspaper covering
Phoenixville.

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