21.   Jews died fighting in the war against Iraq and about half the Jewish children in Tehran attend mainstream schools, where Islamic prayer is common.

22.   Later the cook died fighting the Soviets.

23.   Nearly three decades later, his son, Eugene, died fighting in World War II on the same soil Owens had helped protect.

24.   Most of the young Jews chose to die fighting and kill as many German soldiers as they could.

25.   Nearly every Chechen soldier swears allegiance to Allah, taking gazavat, the holy oath to die fighting the invaders.

26.   No one knows exactly how many young Eritrean men and women have died fighting, which means fewer people to earn money and rebuild.

27.   No one wants to be the last Israeli soldier to die fighting the Arabs.

28.   Rogowski took time out from her shop, the Rebel Barber, to say that Confederate soldiers died honorably fighting for their country.

29.   Russian military spokesmen say that the bodies were of victims of the Chechen separatists, or of Chechen rebels who died fighting Russian troops.

30.   Some settlers became rebels, vowing to die fighting rather than to be slowly smothered by a changing economy.