Biden speaking at ceremony for 7

FORT LEWIS, Wash. (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden is speaking at Tuesday's memorial service at Fort Lewis for seven soldiers killed by a roadside bomb on Oct. 27 in Afghanistan.

All were members of the 5th Stryker brigade that has lost more than two dozen soldiers since deploying in July.

The seven are 24-year-old Sgt. Fernando Delarosa of Alamo, Texas; 27-year-old Staff Sgt. Luis M. Gonzalez of South Ozone Park, N.Y.; 29-year-old Sgt. Dale R. Griffin of Terre Haute, Ind.; 27-year-old Sgt. Isaac B. Jackson of Plattsburg, Mo.; 24-year-old Patrick O. Williamson of Broussard, La.; 22-year-old Spc. Jared D. Stanker of Evergreen Park. Ill; and 25-year-old Pfc. Christopher I. Walz of Vancouver, Wash.

A service was held last week for an eighth Fort Lewis soldier killed the same day in a separate attack, 20-year-old Pfc. Brian R. Bates of Gretna, La.