Very sad: (From Grand Rapids television station WOOD, channel 8)

Two Marines from West Michigan killed in Iraq

(Update, Fallujah, Iraq, December 2, 2005, 6:40 p.m.) Ten U.S. Marines were killed Thursday in Fallujah, Iraq by what the military calls an improvised explosive device, or IED, a roadside bomb made from several large artillery shells. Two of the casualties were from West Michigan.

A family member tells 24 Hour News 8 that U.S. Marine Lance Corporal David Huhn of Portland was one of those killed. The 24-year-old enlisted in the military in February 2004 and arrived in Iraq this summer. He was to return home in January and planned to make the military a career.

A spokesperson for Huhn's family says the Portland High School graduate liked to fish and play video games, and enjoyed watching movies starring Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro.

A second of those Marines was from Branch County. Twenty-year-old Craig Watson was a graduate of Union City High School. Watson played on the football and wrestling teams at the school.

Students at Union City High had planned to send a Christmas care package to Watson, and the sixth-grade class had "adopted" him and was preparing to send letters.

Teachers in each of the school's classes read a statement Friday morning announcing Watson's death.

David "liked to fish and play video games".

What else can you say?


posted by Quiddity at 12/02/2005 09:48:00 PM