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In the latter part of 2017, a request for prayers for the families of 30 Navy SEALs who died when their helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan was still commonly being circulated via social media: Although this request is true in the sense that the tragic event it describes did occur, its continued inclusion of the word yesterday is nonetheless misleading — it references a U.S. Chinook helicopter that was shot down in eastern Afghanistan back in August of 2011, some three months after Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by US Special Forces during an early morning raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan: The Department of Defense released the names of the personnel who were killed in that incident (not all of whom were Navy SEALs):
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