|  | October 29, 2007 
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												Left to right: 
												Beth Downs and her children 
												Bailey, 10, Elle, 11, and 
												Chandler, 13, attend the White 
												House Commission on Remembrance 
												sponsored ceremony in the 
												Russell Senate Office Building 
												in Washington, D.C., Oct. 29, 
												2007. 
												
												Their father, Air 
												Force Maj. William “Brian” 
												Downs, 40, was killed on May 30, 
												2005, in eastern Diyala 
												province, Iraq, in a crash of an 
												Iraqi air force plane during a 
												training mission. 
												
												Defense Dept. 
												photo byGerry J. Gilmore
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