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Photo by Sam Harrel
Susan Hernandez, left, and her daughter Stacey, middle, watch as Gov. Sarah Palin signs House Bill 285 into law Friday, June 13, 2008, in the headquarters of the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Stryker Brigade Combat Team on Fort Wainwright. The new law will allow a municipality or city to grant a tax exemption on property owned and occupied by a widow or widower of member of the U.S. armed forces killed while serving on active duty. Hernandez's husband, Sgt. Irving Hernandez, was killed July 2006 while deployed in Iraq with the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team.
