Ohio mourns death of 20 marines

AN Ohio community is racked with grief after 20 soldiers from the local battalion were killed in just two days.

Ohio mourns death of 20 marines

On an ordinary day, the nondescript brick building near the bustling interstate tends to be the kind of place people pass without a second thought. But not after the marine battalion headquartered in the old schoolhouse learned that 14 more of its members had been killed in Iraq.

The news came just hours after the working-class community began mourning the loss of six other marines who were killed on Monday while on sniper duty.

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