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...member of the 160-strong company, however, will be conspicuously absent. He is Keith (Matt) Maupin, the only American soldier who is unaccounted for in Iraq. Ten months ago, insurgents ambushed a convoy guarded by the 724th and took Private First Class Maupin, then 20, captive. There have been conflicting reports on his fate. He was seen alive on one videotape, reported killed on another. Without proof of his death, the Army presumes he is still alive. His family fervently prays that is so. The months have ticked by, and Maupin has been promoted to the rank of specialist...
...link fencing, spelling out his name and framing his picture. The winter weather has taken a toll on the yellow ribbons in town, but residents say replacements will come with the spring, along with nature's yellow displays of daffodils and forsythia. "People have a tendency to forget," concedes Keith Maupin, Matt's father. "We're not going to let that happen...
...Neither Carol nor I wanted him to join the military," says Keith, 54, who is divorced from Matt's mother. "I told him, 'Matt, you can do what you want to do, but there's a war going on over there, and I don't care if you're in the reserves or not, you could get activated.'" At that time, U.S. forces were still fighting in Afghanistan, and rumbles of war in Iraq were growing louder. Maupin's brother Micah followed him into the service a year later, joining the active-duty Marines. Keith had served in the Marines...
...knew it was Matt's," she says. On Easter Sunday, an Army major hand-delivered letters to Maupin's parents informing them that Matt was missing. The next day, the Army stormed Carolyn's home, where Matt had lived before shipping out. "There must have been 20 of them," Keith says. "There was a stress officer, a chaplain, a casualty-assistance officer." Neighbors plied the Maupins with casseroles, pies and deli trays--and an extra refrigerator to hold it all. The Marines sent Micah home temporarily from his base in Pensacola, Fla., and agreed not to send him overseas until...
...Rice and Beanpot,” sponsored by Qdoba Mexican Grill and Nantucket Nectars, also featured musical acts State Radio and Northeastern band Logan and a comedy sketch in between the rounds. A silent auction of sports memorabilia—featuring items such as a baseball autographed by Keith Foulke and a Troy Brown jersey—was conducted next to the burrito-eating stage...