… at a State Department memorial ceremony today can be found here.
Adkins, a George Washington University graduate, was killed on his first diplomatic mission for the Foreign Service.
… and a diplomat on his first mission, has been killed in Ethiopia.
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A commenter points me to an excellent article about Adkins in the GW newspaper.
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