Phillip E. Frank
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Age: 20
From: Elk Grove, Ill.
Assigned to 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Phillip E. Frank was killed April 8 by hostile fire in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: April 08, 2004
Memorial service in Hazlet honors fallen Marine
Associated Press
HAZLET, N.J. — Phillip E. Frank joined the Marines after watching the second of two planes hit the World Trade Center towers.
It was in that moment the young Aberdeen man saw his destiny, said his father, Roy Frank.
“He was devastated by that experience, and it never left him,” Frank said at his son’s memorial service at St. John’s United Methodist Church.
The Defense Department said Lance Cpl. Frank, 20, a member of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, was killed April 8 by hostile fire near the Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Ramadi.
Others who spoke at the service that attracted about 300 mourners — many of them former classmates and teachers — recalled the 2002 Matawan Regional High School graduate’s bravery and compassion.
“There are many of you here who helped make the man we honor today,” said his mother,...