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Marine Who Served in Iraq Dies in S.C.
By Associated Press
July 7, 2003, 1:29 AM EDT
GREENVILLE, S.C. quote:
A U.S. Marine who was part of the unit that helped rescue Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch died in a car crash on his first weekend home since returning from Iraq.
Josh Speer was killed when his car veered off the road, overturned several times and struck trees Sunday morning. The 21-year-old soldier was heading to see his fiancee.
Capt. Shawn Turner, a Marine Corps spokesman, said Speer served with the Marine unit that aided in Lynch's rescue. Turner said details of what Speer's unit did to help Lynch, the Army private captured by Iraqis, were unavailable.
Speer was wearing his seat belt, state Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Dan Marsceau said.
Speer's family said he had returned home to Marietta on Thursday. Holly Coupe, his fiancee, said Speer wrote her from Iraq, promising that, "The first thing I do when I get back is put a ring on your finger."
The couple went to a local amusement park over the weekend, but she expected Speer to give her the ring when they were to go hiking next week.
"I lost him, but it's the Lord's will," Coupe said. "It's hard to accept, but I have to. He has bigger plans for him."
William Coupe, Holly's father, said he was proud of Speer. "Out of everybody you want your daughter to marry, he's the guy," he said. "I loved him like a son."
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-marine-accident,0,4618989.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines
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RIP Marine
Damn life realy does suck!!
Or does it??
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That's very tragic. [ ] It's also rather ironic because a young 75th Ranger who was also on the Pvt. Lynch rescue, and home on leave, died the exact same way.
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Irony is not playing the numbers that you have played for five years straight, and the one day you don't play them, they are the winning numbers in a $185 million dollar Powerball . . . .
This is tragic, and one of those things I will never understand.
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Cars kill more young service men than armies. Trying to get home from a base 1000 miles away will do it as quick as a sniper.
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If you load a mudfoot down with a lot of gadgets he has to watch somebody a lot more simply equipped - say with a stone axe - will sneak up and bash his head in while he is trying to read a Vernier. - Robert Heinlein
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