Some winding blocks away from my home base, I spotted in the light of a street lamp a promising trove an unusually large pile of curbed junk that could have passed for an installation in a Chelsea gallery.

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"I'm building up my family here because this is where my base and home is, " Boostani says.

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But there is little comfort we can give to the families of the fallen angels who make their final trip home to Dover Air Force Base in my home state of Delaware.

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"Singapore is my home, this is my base, this is where I feel safe, " says Comer, speaking in the loft of his four-story office in a shophouse on Singapore's Ann Siang Hill precinct, a preserved historic area just off Chinatown.

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