
BOKOSHE, Okla. — As it had done three decades ago, this small southeastern Oklahoma town gathered May 7 to say goodbye to a young man lost to war.
About 400 people packed into the Bokoshe High School gymnasium to honor Marine Cpl. Scott Vincent, who was killed April 30 in Iraq.
Family and friends remembered Vincent, 21, as a young man whose passions were for NASCAR, University of Oklahoma athletics and hunting, the latter of which he displayed on his camouflaged sleeves.
“He was in his element, running around with a rifle with a bunch of guys,” said Capt. Brent Bombach, Vincent’s platoon commander in Iraq. “He was definitely at home.”
Vincent was killed near...