SLUG: ME-GARRIGUS PHOTOGRAPHER: NIKKI KAHN/THE WASHINGTON PO

SLUG: ME-GARRIGUS PHOTOGRAPHER: NIKKI KAHN/THE WASHINGTON POST DATE: 02/12/2007 Arlington National Cemetery, VA Brigadier General Rodney Johnson, Office of the Provost Marshall, General of the Army presents a flag to Natasha A. Garrigus, widow of the deceased U.S. Army Sgt. Mickel D. Garrigus, as mother Deadra Garrigus, seated to the right, looks on, during a graveside service held at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, on Monday, February 12, 2007. Garrigus, 24, of Elma, Wash., died Jan. 27 in Taji, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle during combat patrol. (Photo by Nikki Kahn/The The Washington Post via Getty Images)