
Sgt. David Caruso had called home to Naperville every week since joining the Marines five years ago, but he told his parents last week they wouldn’t hear from him for a while because his unit in Iraq was “going to do some stuff.”
“He told me not to worry about him. I told him that’s like telling me not to breathe,” his mother, Gloria Caruso, said Friday.
The 25-year-old was killed in a firefight Tuesday as U.S. troops fought to capture the city of Fallujah from Islamic insurgents, his parents and military officials said.
Caruso was one of six Marines from Illinois, all assigned to different units, to die this week in Iraq. Five were part of the...