CASUALTY10.NE.081904

Jeffrey Durham loads the vault of Justin Bialiolisa Onwordi into the grave at Montlawn Memorial Park in Raleigh. Onwordi was killed in Baghdad while serving as an Army medic. Durham works for Wilbert Ultimate Service Provider that made the military service vault that Onwordi was buried in. Even though Durham has worked six other veterans' funerals, this was the first Iraqi service combat death he worked since starting on this job in July 2004. "It hits you differently for what he died for," Durham said of burying a combat casualty. "(He was) fighting for us while we're over here." Onwordi was a Nigerian immigrant serving in the military.