By John Rutherford, Producer, NBC News, Washington Those nine soldiers killed last week in the attack on their remote Afghan outpost were all young - the oldest was 27- and they all had big plans for their futures.Cpl. Pruitt Rainey, 22, a star high school wrestler back home in Haw River, N.C., wanted to become a physical education teacher and a wrestling coach. "Kids loved him," his church pastor told the Burlington (N.C.) Times-News. "He would have been very good at it." Cpl. Jason Hovater, 24, grew up in a deeply religious family in Clinton, Tenn. "While he was in the Army, he realized his true calling was to be a worship leader," his sister told the Knoxville News Sentinel.Cpl. Jason Bogar, 25, of Seattle, Wash., wasn't sure if he wanted to re-up, attend art school, or try something else."He talked of wanting to be an...
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