| Date: | Tuesday October 21, @04:10AM |
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| Author: | ewing2001 |
| Topic: | News |
| from the presstelegram.com dept. | |
presstelegram.com -October 21
LONG BEACH Family members, friends and fellow Marines gathered Monday to mourn the death of a decorated Marine who survived a land mine explosion during Operation Iraqi Freedom only to be shot dead while on a weekend leave in Long Beach.
Lance Cpl. Sok Khak Ung, a 22-year-old combat engineer who participated in the rescue operation of Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch in April and was awarded the Purple Heart for taking shrapnel to the leg two weeks later, died early Sunday after a gunman opened fire as he and several friends were barbecuing oysters behind his father's home.
"It's a real shame to think that he went to hell and back in Iraq and sacrificed so much only to come back here and get killed like this,' said Gunnery Sgt. Graham Hilson, who served alongside Ung in Iraq. "It just goes to show you that sometimes it's more dangerous over here than it is in war.'
Thestate.com -July 8
GREENVILLE, S.C. -
"...A Marine who was part of the unit that helped rescue Army Pfc.
Josh Speer, 21, veered off an Upstate road, overturned several times and struck
Kent Dill, a Greenville County deputy coroner said Speer, 21, died on the scene
Capt. Shawn Turner, a Marine Corps spokesman, said Speer served with the Marine
1 Day after the death of Lynch-Top Witness, the US announced a new report:
Washington Times -July 9
"The Army will release a report tomorrow on the ambush of the 507th Maintenance Company in Iraq that will show Pfc. Jessica Lynch and another female soldier suffered extensive injuries in a vehicle accident, but not from Iraqi fighters. "
"Pfc. Lynch also was pulled from the wreckage and taken to the same hospital. "Lynch survived principally because of the medical attention she received from the Iraqis," one source said.
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Jessica Lynch died in a car crash on his first weekend back home since returning
from Iraq.
some trees as he was heading to see his fiancee.
about 8 a.m.
unit that aided in Lynch's rescue. Turner said details of what Speer's unit did to help
Lynch, the Army private captured to Iraqis, were unavailable..."
Crash caused Lynch's 'horrific injuries'
A week later, she became one of the war's most recognized faces. A combat camera crew recorded American special-operations forces carrying her broken body on a stretcher from the hospital to a rescue aircraft. "
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