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Marine never got to hold infant daughter
By Lou Whitmire
News Journal

MANSFIELD -- Bethany Lyons last hugged her husband Christopher Lyons in February, when she joined him in Las Vegas on a two-day leave.

She was seven months pregnant.

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Christopher P. Lyons of Mansfield was killed Thursday in Iraq during an attack by insurgents with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire.

He never got to hold his daughter Ella, now 3 months old, but he was able to see his baby and his wife on a Web cam once and in many photos the couple exchanged.

Wednesday, Bethany received an e-mail from her husband, along with 16 photos of himself in Iraq.

"I'm just thankful I'm living in this time with all the technology," Bethany said Friday night.

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