Jeffrey G Green

Jeffrey Green was so focused on becoming a Marine in high school that he helped talk another student into joining the service instead of the seminary. "I think his whole outlook was to a future with the Marines," said his grandmother, Virginia Green. "He liked the excitement and loved the training." Green, 20, of Irving, Texas, was found dead May 5 in Iraq’s Anbar province after he tried to swim across the Euphrates River on a covert operation. He was based at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Green was an avid "Star Wars" fan who enjoyed camping, fast cars and motorcycles. He was a Boy Scout who achieved Life Scout rank. Though he was excited about the military, Nancy DeStefano, who was Green's adviser in high school, said she believes the...