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U.S.
Marines, Maj. Jay Thomas Aubin, 36, of Waterville, ME
One of four U.S. Marines who died when their CH-46 Sea Knight
helicopter crashed about 9 miles south of Iraqi border town Umm Qasr.
Nancy Chamberlain felt a sense of foreboding March 20, 2003 watching
television reports that a chopper had gone down. She thought of her
36-year-old son, Jay Aubin, who fell in love with flying as a small
boy, who joined the Marines and went to college purely to become a
pilot. He was bursting with pride when told he was in line to fly the
presidential helicopter, when he returned to his Yuma, Ariz., base.
Watching the relentless television images, Chamberlain said, "We just
knew."
Chamberlain got the official word on Friday morning when Marines
showed up at her door.
Now she struggles with trying to find the right words to describe her
son, and to preserve his memory for his two children, Alicia, 10, and
Nathan. 7, who live in Yuma with their mother, Rhonda, a former
Marine.
"He went with bells on," his mother said. "He's a Corps man through
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Marines, Sgt. Michael E. Bitz, 31, of Port Hueneme, CA
Killed near An Nasiriyah when one Iraqi unit indicated it was giving
up, then opened fire when the Marines approached.
Bitz, a father of four, joined the Marines in 1995 at the urging of
his mother, who said her son drifted from job to job and lacked focus
after graduating from high school.
Bitz was a member of the 2nd Assault Amphibious Battalion in the 2nd
Marine Division from Camp Lejeune, N.C. His wife, Janina, gave birth
to twins in February, 2003, just weeks after her husband received his
orders. Bitz has two other children, ages 2 and 7.
Bitz's mother, Donna Bellman, told the Ventura County Star that she
was never worried about her son's safety until war was declared on
Iraq. She felt "something wasn't right."
"I had this terrible feeling since he shipped out in January ... I
kept trying to picture a white bubble around him to keep him safe,"
she said. "But it didn't work." |
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Marines, Lance Cpl. Brian Rory Buesing, 20, of Cedar Key, FL
Killed near An Nasiriyah when one Iraqi unit indicated it was giving
up, then opened fire when the Marines approached.
Buesing "was full of energy in life, he always had a smile on his
face," said Angie Doty, who works in the guidance office at the Cedar
Key School, and whose daughter graduated with Buesing. "I know his
parents were real proud of him." |
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Marines, 2nd Lt. Therrel S. Childers, 30, of Harrison County, MS
One of two Marines who died in the initial ground operations in Iraq.
Childers' parents will bury him in Powell, Wyo.
Childers, who went by Shane, entered the Marines shortly after
graduating high school in 1990 in Harrison, Miss. He served in the
first Persian Gulf War, graduated from The Citadel in South Carolina
in 2001 and returned to the Mideast in early February 2003 as a second
lieutenant in the 1st Marine Division.
He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment based at
Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Childers, who was born near West Hamlin, W.Va., came from a military
family and was focused on a future in the military from a very early
age. Joseph Childers was in the Navy for more than 20 years, including
a stint in Vietnam. |
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Marines, Lance Cpl. David K. Fribley, 26, of Lee, FL
Killed near An Nasiriyah when one Iraqi unit indicated it was giving
up, then opened fire when the Marines approached.
Fribley knew going into the war that Americans could face tactics like
those the Iraqis used near An Nasiriyah, his father said March 18,
2003.
"That's part of war," Garry Fribley said from the family's home in
Atwood, Ind., just outside Warsaw where his son went to school. "It's
time to take the gloves off. We're so intent on being the nice guys,
and they (Iraqi soldiers) are not going to abide by anything." |
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Marines, Cpl. Jose A. Garibay, 21, of Orange, CA
Killed near An Nasiriyah when one Iraqi unit indicated it was giving
up, then opened fire when the Marines approached.
Garibay wasn't a star athlete or standout student. By all accounts, he
just enjoyed being part of a group. That's why Garibay made a good
Marine, educators said, and planned to become a police officer when
his enlistment was completed next year.
He was a native of Jalisco, Mexico who moved to the United States when
he was a baby. He joined the Marines three years ago and was assigned
to the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Expeditionary
Brigade based at Camp Lejeune, N.C. |
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Marines, Cpl. Jorge A. Gonzalez, 20, of Los Angeles, CA
Killed near An Nasiriyah when one Iraqi unit indicated it was giving
up, then opened fire when the Marines approached.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine
Expeditionary Brigade, Camp Lejeune, N.C., Gonzalez is survived by his
parents, wife Jazty, 25, and his son Alonso, who was born March 4 just
weeks before the corporal left for the Middle East.
The avid soccer fan then headed straight into the Marine Corps after
graduating from high school.
Rosa Gonzalez, his mother, said that on March 25, 2003 that she
received a letter from her son in which he wrote of the newborn son he
had not yet met. Jorge Gonzalez's younger brother read from the
letter: "And if you can wait just a little longer, I'll be there as
soon as the war ends." |
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Marines, Lance Cpl. Jose Gutierrez, 22, of L.A., CA
One of two Marines who died in the initial ground operations in Iraq.
Like thousands of other Central American immigrants, Gutierrez made
the dangerous 2,000-mile journey from his native Guatemala, across
Mexico and over the border into the United States. He was 16 when he
came to Southern California, without family or friends.
Marcelo Mosquera, a machinist from Ecuador, and his wife Nora Mosquera,
who became surrogate parents to Gutierrez, told KVEA-TV in Los Angeles
that Gutierrez "would go after whatever was put in front of him to
reach is goal."
The Mosqueras' adult daughter, Jackie Baker, told KVEA-TV that
Gutierrez "wanted to give the United States what the United States
gave to him. He came with nothing. This country gave him everything." |
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Marines, Sgt. Nicolas Hodson, 22, of Smithville, MO
Hodson was killed in a vehicle accident in Iraq.
In Missouri, friends said Hodson graduated in 1999 from Smithville
High School.
Principal Wayne Krueger described Hodson as "the kind of kid that
everyone knew and everyone liked." |
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Marines, Cpl. Evan James, 20, of La Harpe, IL
An Illinois Marine who drowned
to death on an operation to scout the banks of the Saddam Canal in
southeastern Iraq. |
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Army, Pfc. Howard Johnson II, 21, of Mobile, AL
Johnson was killed Sunday as the 507th Maintenance Company clashed
with Iraqi forces Sunday.
“He was God’s gift to us and the Lord has taken him away,” said his
father, the Rev. Howard Johnson, who pastors Truevine Missionary
Baptist Church in Prichard, Ala. |
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Marines, Staff Sgt Phillip A. Jordan, 42, of Brazoria, TX
Killed near An Nasiriyah when one Iraqi unit indicated it was giving
up, then opened fire when the Marines approached. |
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Marines, Lance Cpl. Eric J. Orlowski, 26, of Buffalo, NY
Orlowski was killed by an accidental discharge of a machine gun in
Iraq.
Relatives said Orlowski was a reservist on his first deployment. He
called his mother, stepfather and 3-year-old daughter, CamerynLee, in
Buffalo just 10 hours before his death, according to the girl's
mother, Nicole Kross.
"He was always there for his daughter, and he loved her more than
anything," Kross, an Air Force reservist, said of her high school
sweetheart. |
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Marines, 2nd Lt. Frederick Pokorney Jr., 31, of Nye, NV
Killed near An Nasiriyah when one Iraqi unit indicated it was giving
up, then opened fire when the Marines approached.
Residents in the small mining town of Tonopah, 220 miles northwest of
Las Vegas, remembered Pokorney as a tall, strapping athlete, who
worked hard and fended for himself.
"He was just a wonderful all-around kid," said Janet Dwyer, secretary
at Tonopah High School. "He was someone you'd be proud to call your
son," Dwyer said. Pokorney played on the varsity basketball and
football teams, the Muckers, school officials said.
Pokorney moved after graduation from Nevada to Corvallis, Ore. He
attended Oregon State University before moving to North Carolina with
his wife, Carolyn, said his former neighbor, Dave Sodeman of
Corvallis.
Pokorney was assigned to the Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 10th
Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, based at Camp
Lejeune, N.C. |
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Marines, Cpl. Randal Kent Rosacker, 21, of San Diego, CA
Killed near An Nasiriyah when one Iraqi unit indicated it was giving
up, then opened fire when the Marines approached.
Rosacker's father,ommand Master Chief Rod Rosacker, said his son just
wanted to do something for his country.
The father returned home from the war Monday, only to hear that night
about his son's death.
Randal Rosacker was the oldest of three children and grew up in San
Diego, where his wife lives. He was a machine gunner with the Marines,
based at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
He was deployed to the Middle East shortly after the start of the new
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Army, Spc. Gregory P. Sanders, 19, of Hobart, IN
Killed in a sniper shooting in
Iraq in what the Pentagon described as an Iraqi ambush. |
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Army, Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert, 27, of Easton, PA
Army officer killed in grenade attack by a fellow serviceman. Fifteen
other soldiers, including the division commander, were wounded, at
least three of them seriously, in the early March 23rd attack at Camp
Pennsylvania, the rear base for the 101st Airborne near the Iraqi
border. |
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Marines, Lance Cpl. Thomas Slocum, 22, of Thornton, CO
Slocum lived in the north Denver suburb of Thornton. He was one of
nine Marines killed near An Nasiriyah on Sunday, March 23, 2003, after
an Iraqi unit indicated it was giving up then opened fire when his
unit approached. Another 40 were wounded, according to U.S. military
sources.
"He enjoyed being in the Marines. He believed in what he was doing
over there and we support him 100 percent," said Slocum’s stepfather,
Stanley Cooper. |
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Air Force, Maj. Gregory Stone, 40, of Boise, ID
The second serviceman to die from wounds suffered in a grenade attack
blamed on an Army sergeant.
Stone graduated from Benson High School in Portland, Ore., and Oregon
State University. He enlisted in 1983, went through the ROTC program
at Oregon State and was commissioned in 1988.
Stone had two sons, ages 11 and 7, who live in Boise.
"He was wonderful, the best son anybody could ask for," said his
stepmother, Sally Stone of Riggins, Idaho. Stone's mother, Betty Lenzi
of Ontario, Ore., said she was too upset to talk. |
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Marines, Staff Sgt. Kendall Damon Watersbey, 29, of Baltimore, MD
One of four U.S. Marines who died when their CH-46 Sea Knight
helicopter crashed about 9 miles south of Iraqi border town Umm Qasr.
Waters-Bey, a specialist in helicopter maintenance, was assigned to
the Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron-268, Third Marine Aircraft Wing.
He was based at Camp Pendleton, Calif.
He had been living in California with his wife of 11 months, Angela,
who serves in the Navy, and was the father of a 10-year-old son from a
previous marriage. He was the oldest of five children. He grew up in
the rowhouse working-class neighborhood of northeast Baltimore,
graduating from Northern High School where he excelled in swimming and
track.
At home, his sisters recalled, he excelled in jokes and cooking. "He
was always making faces, making people laugh," said 28-year-old
Michelle Waters. "And he loved to barbecue _ ribs, especially." |
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Marines, Lance Cpl. Bryan P. Bertrand, 23, of Coos Bay, OR
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Navy, Lt. Cmdr. Christopher M. Blaschum, 33, of Virginia Beach, VA
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Army, Chief Petty Officer Matthew J. Bourgeois, 35, of Talahassee, FL
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Marines, Gunnery Sgt. Stephen L. Bryson, 35, of Montgomery, AL
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Army, Sgt. 1st Class Nathan Ross Chapman, 31, of of San Antonio, TX
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Marines, Staff Sgt. Walter F. (III) Cohee, 26, of Wicomico, MD
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Air Force, Air Force Tech. Sgt. Sean M. Corlew, 37, of Thousand Oaks,
CA
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Air Force, Senior Airman Jason Cunningham, 26, of Camarillo, CA
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Navy, Machinist's Mate Fireman Apprentice Bryant L. Davis, 20, of
Chicago, IL
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Army, Master Sgt. Jefferson Donald Davis, 39, of Watauga, TN
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Army, Chief Warrant Ofc. Jody L. Egnor, 32, of Liberty Township, OH
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Army, Army Maj. Curtis D. Feistner, 34, of White Bear Lake, MN
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Army, Chief Warrant Officer Stanley Harriman, 34, of Wade, NC
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Navy, Fireman Apprentice Michael Jakes, 20, of New York, NY
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Navy, Petty Officer 3rd Class Benjamin Johnson, 21, of Rochester, NY
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Air Force, Staff Sgt. Shane H. Kimmett, 28, of Boulder, CO
Kimmett was killed when a MC-130H Combat Talon II plane crashed into a
mountain about 20 miles south of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Kimmett was
participating in a training mission, flying in the rain and fog, when
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Air Force, Air Force Master Sgt. William L. McDaniel, 36, of Fort
Jefferson, OH
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Army, Chief Warrant Officer Mark S. O'Steen, 43, of Ozark, AL
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Navy, Petty Officer 1st Class Vincent Parker, 38, of Preston, MS
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Army, Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Petithory, 32, of Cheshire, MA
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Army, Staff Sgt. Brian "Cody" Prosser, 28, of Fraizer Park, CA
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Navy, Petty Officer 1st Class Neil Roberts, 32, of Woodland, CA
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National Guard, Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Romero, 30, CO
A blast killed Romero and three other members of the 710th Explosive
Ordnance Detachment based in San Diego. |
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Army, Staff Sgt. Bruce A. Rushforth, 35, of New Bedford, MA
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Air Force, Air Force Staff Sgt. Anissa A. Shero, 31, of Grafton, WV
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Army, Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer, 28, of Albuquerque, NM
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Army, Pvt. 1st Class Kristofor Stonesifer, 28, of Doylestown, PA
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Army, Army Sgt. 1st Class Peter Tycz, 32, of Tonawanda, NY
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Marines, Sgt. Jeannette L. Winters, 25, of Du Page, IL
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