The war in Iraq has taken the lives of several area servicemen. Here are profiles of four local men, along with a list of Massachusetts residents killed in action.

ATTLEBORO - Not all U.S. soldiers in Iraq are involved in maintaining security or patrolling against insurgents.

WRENTHAM - For the past 10 months, Sgt. Steve Harrop split time in Iraq repairing damaged military vehicles and patroling major highways for roadside bombs.

ATTLEBORO - Not long out of high school almost four years ago and working in his father's Cape Cod restaurant, Gary Doyle said he felt a need to "do something positive" with his life.

Now, a veteran of two tours in Iraq as a Marine infantryman, Doyle says he's achieved his goal.

NORTH ATTLEBORO - Paul Couturier, a captain in the Massachusetts National Guard who served in Iraq in 2003, sees his involvement and that of thousands of U.S. troops as honorable and aimed at opposing terrorism and helping to lift the veil of oppression from the Iraqi and Afghan people.

So Couturier and other like-minded Iraq War vets are particularly incensed over plans by an anti-war group to stage hearings near Washington, D.C., this weekend on alleged abuses involving U.S. troops and their commanders.

LCpl Travis Desiato (USMC) - Bedford

SSG Robert R. Pirelli (USA) - Franklin

SSG Darren J. Cunningham (USA) - Groton

1stLt Travis J. Fuller (USMC) - Hampden

1st Lt Brian McPhillips (USMC) - Pembroke

Sgt Glenn R. Allison (USA) - Pittsfield

LCpl Jeffrey Burgess (USMC) - Plymouth

1st Lt Ryan P. Jones (USA) - Westminster

PFC John Landry, Jr., (USA) - Wilmington/Lowell

SFC Keith A. Callahan (USA) - McClure, PA (born in MA, Mother lives in Woburn)

There's no doubting where these stalwarts stand.

For almost five years, they have been at Gilbert-Perry Square in Attleboro for an hour every Tuesday, holding signs in support of the troops.

ATTLEBORO - When Marion Johnson's son, Keith, went to war in Iraq, she had the normal concerns about a son in the military entering a dangerous area.

But what she was most unprepared for was the outpouring of community support from friends, neighbors, veterans organizations and school children.