COLUMBIA — A severe arm injury during fighting in Fallujah, Al Anbar, in 2004 didn't keep Matthew Mason off the Iraq War battlefield. Nor did it dull the competitive fire of the avid runner and former high school athlete from outside Kansas City.
Northwest Missouri State grad dies in Afghanistan helicopter crash
Thursday, August 11, 2011 | 5:24 p.m. CDT
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