Petty Officer Third Class Nathan Bruckenthal, is shown in this photo taken in 1998. Bruckenthal, 24, a damage controlman from Smithtown, N.Y., had been assigned to the Coast Guard Air Station in the Miami suburb of Opa-Locka. He died of wounds suffered Saturday, April 24, 2004 in an attack that began when suicide bombers in boats attacked pumping stations in the Persian Gulf. Bruckenthal is the first Coast Guardsman to die in combat since Vietnam. (AP Photo/Bruckenthal Family)