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01/28/09 :
DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

Sgt. Trevor J. Johnson, 23, of Forsyth, Mont...assigned to the 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune...died Jan. 27 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan:

Trevor Johnson played G.I Joe as a child, and paintball, football and Legion baseball as a teenager, even delaying boot camp until he could see out the Legion season. He was, writes the Gazette, "a ranch kid through and through, at home on a horse and at ease with a gun, and he wanted to serve his country from an early age."

01/28/09 :
DoD Identifies Marine Casualty


Sgt. David W. Wallace III, 25, of Sharpsville, Pa...assigned to the 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune...died Jan. 27 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan:

"My son was very proud to be a Marine and looked forward to doing his job every day," Carol Wallace said Wednesday. "It was an exciting life that fit his lifestyle, and it provided him with a very good education. He got to see the world....He took on a more dangerous position, learning about explosives."

Rest eternal, grant to them, O Lord, and may light perpetual shine upon them.

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