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Nov. 17, 2009

William C. Gentry

An epiphany on the battlefield in Iraq led William C. Gentry Jr. to move from a prosecutor's chair to the bench.

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By Pat Broderick

Daily Journal Staff Writer

CHULA VISTA - William C. Gentry Jr. stood in a parking lot late one night in Baghdad, chatting with his wife on his cell phone, when he heard a swishing sound overhead.

"Something exploded," Gentry recalled. "I needed to find a place to take cover, so I dove into a ditch. I told my wife, 'I'll have to call you back.' It was the most helpless feeling. You have no control."

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