Poetic Obituaries: While [Matthew E.] Baylis was remembered

as outgoing, [Justin A.] Verdeja was remembered as quiet. Verdeja learned Arabic quickly and spoke complete sentences to the Iraqis, his squad leader Gabriel Salas said.

"When he talked, everybody listened, because he never complained," Salas said. "He often wrote a lot of poetry or worked out to escape."

from The Gazette: Outgoing partier, quiet poet memorialized

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