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All it had gone very quickly. When the Taliban fired their first RPGs, it was late afternoon. When the Marine was driven away in the armored vehicle, it was dusk. And when the patrol returning to base saw the dark silhouette of the helicopter that flew him away. It was night.

The fighting ebbed with nightfall. Some of the Marines equipped with night vision glasses pushed deeper into the orchard, but the insurgents were gone. Intelligence pointed to three enemy dead, several Marines said, but it could not be confirmed.

That night, officers assembled the platoon in a darkened room of the run-down house where the Marines had camped after taking Dahaneh two days earlier. There the officers delivered the news: Bernard had died of a blood clot in his heart on the operating table. He was Golf Company’s third fatality since arriving in Afghanistan in May.

Bernard was the 19th American to die in Afghanistan in August. Fifty-one Marines, soldiers and seamen lost their lives that month. Of the 739 Americans killed in and around Afghanistan since 2001, 151 died last year and 180 so far this year.

Lance Cpl. Joshua “Bernie” Bernard was 21 years old. Read the full story here.

In this photo, Aug. 14, Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard is tended to by fellow U.S. Marines after being hit by a rocket propelled grenade during a firefight against the Taliban in the village of Dahaneh in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. Bernard was transported by helicopter to Camp Leatherneck where he later died of his wounds.

This undated photo shows Associated Press photographer Julie Jacobson, center, standing with unidentified members of the Afghan National Army. On Aug. 14, 2009, Jacobson was with a U.S. Marine patrol in southern Afghanistan when it walked into a Taliban ambush. The clash resulted in the death of 21-year-old Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard, hit in the legs by a rocket-propelled grenade. From the reporting of Alfred de Montesquiou, the photos and written journal kept by Julie Jacobson, and the TV images of cameraman Ken Teh, the AP has compiled “Death of a Marine,” a narrative of the clash, offering vivid insights into how the battle was fought, and into Bernard’s character and background. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

In this Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 file photo, U.S. Marine Cpl. Braxton Russell pays his respects to Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard during a memorial service at a forward operating base with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, in Now Zad in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Aug. 27, 2009 file photo, U.S. Marine Lt. Jake Godby pays his respects to Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard during a memorial service at a forward operating base with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, in Now Zad in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Bernard was mortally wounded during a Taliban ambush on Aug. 14. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

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