BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. Army Staff Sgt. David Julian believed in America's mission in Iraq. Soldiers David Julian, left, and Ernesto Cimarrusti were killed along with three other comrades on March 10. "It's not all fame and glory. There are a lot of hard times out here. But without Americans willing to pay the price, who's going to?" Julian told CNN in September when we first met him and the men of Delta company. The 31-year-old father of a young girl believed that the long, exhausting hours in Iraq and the "miserable as hell" living conditions at his base were all worth it -- especially for Iraq's children.
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Staff Sgt. David Julian was one of five soldiers killed in suicide blast in March
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Julian told CNN in September he believed in the Iraq mission
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Surviving comrades say they think about that fateful day all the time
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Soldier: "They were all good men. What happened to them shouldn't happen."
On March 10, @placeholder and four other soldiers and their interpreter were killed when a suicide bomber walked into the middle of their patrol and detonated himself.