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NBC's chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel returned home for the third part of his Tip of the Spear series. The first two were filed from the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan in October (here and here) when he came under Taliban guerrilla fire while embedded at a remote USArmy outpost. During his reporting Sgt John Penich was killed by mortar rounds fired by his own comrades. For part three of Tip of the Spear Engel traveled to Penich's hometown in Illinois where his mother prizes the sergeant's posthumous Silver Star for valor under friendly fire; his brother, a Harley Davidson mechanic, keeps the dead soldier's bandana on his handlebars; and his father awaits a spring thaw so he can place the marker on his grave under the great oak trees of the town cemetery.
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