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Abigail Spanberger: “On a February morning in 2010, he [Staff Sergeant Mark Stets…”

Featuring: Abigail Spanberger, Democratic | Governor of Virginia

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Gov. Spanberger honors fallen service members at Memorial Day event

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He worked in army psychological operations, work that required civilian clothes and quiet courage in places that never made the news. And On a February morning in 2010, he [Staff Sergeant Mark Stets Jr.] and two colleagues were on their way to a ceremony marking the reopening of a girls school, a school rebuilt with American help, when a roadside bomb took his life. He left behind a wife, three daughters, and his parents. For some of these new names, it took years of meticulous research, of refusing to give up and to finally … (07:59–08:11)

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Asserts that Staff Sergeant Mark Stets Jr. was killed by a roadside bomb in 2010.

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