South Korean honor guard carry a portrait and the coffin of the late South Korean Army Sgt. Yoon Jang-ho during a funeral ceremony at the military hospital in Seongnam, south of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 5, 2007. Yoon, who was on duty around a gate of a military base in Bagram, about 60 kilometers north of Kabul, Afghanistan, when a suicide bomber attacked there on Feb. 27, 2007 was the first South Korean serviceman killed in an attack while on an overseas assignment since the country fought on the U.S. side during the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975. AP Photo logo AP Photo 35 months ago

South Korean honor guard carry a portrait and the coffin of the late South Korean Army Sgt. Yoon Jang-ho during a funeral ceremony at the military hospital in Seongnam, south of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 5, 2007. Yoon, who was on duty around a gate of a military base in Bagram, about 60 kilometers north of Kabul, Afghanistan, when a suicide bomber attacked there on Feb. 27, 2007 was the first South Korean serviceman killed in an attack while on an overseas assignment since the country fought on the U.S. side during the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975.

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