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Two years ago today, First Lt. Travis John Fuller and 30 others were killed in Iraq when their helicopter crashed in a sandstorm. His sisters, Rebecca Fuller and Jenny Francis, remember Travis as "the little guy:" at 5 feet 7 inches tall, Fuller would often seem much smaller than his fellow Marines. But he left a big impression on his family and on the people he knew.
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Two years ago today, First Lt. Travis John Fuller and 30 others were killed in Iraq when their helicopter crashed in a sandstorm. His sisters, Rebecca Fuller and Jenny Francis, remember Travis as "the little guy:" at 5 feet 7 inches tall, Fuller would often seem much smaller than his fellow Marines. But he left a big impression on his family and on the people he knew.
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NPR's Morning Edition 1/26/2007
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JF: I'm Jenny Francis.
RF: I'm Rebecca Fuller.
JF: We're here to remember our brother, First Lieutenant Travis John
Fuller, who was killed in Iraq.
RF: He was was born immature, as he would put it. He was born premature.
And he was always the little guy. Even in the Marines we'd get pictures
of him, and there'd oh these 6 foot Marines, and there he was, you know,
5'7".
JF: Even though he was the younger brother and we were the older
sisters, we were always looking up to Trav and trying to win his
approval.
RF: When I knew Travis was coming to visit, the first thing in my head
was always we have to do something cool.
JF: But he didn't care...
RF: No, no, he would make a good time wherever he was, it didn't matter,
he would have a friend there in minutes. When mom and dad went to one of
his graduations, he took the time to introduce mom and dad to the
janitor who played the piano,...
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