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Benjamin R Carman
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Name: Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Benjamin R. Carman
Age: 20
From: Jefferson, Iowa
Assigned to 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident: Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Benjamin R. Carman was killed April 6 by hostile fire in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: April 06, 2004
Marine loved anything to do with outdoors
By Colleen Krantz
Des Moines Register
Age: 20
From: Jefferson, Iowa
Assigned to 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident: Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Benjamin R. Carman was killed April 6 by hostile fire in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: April 06, 2004
Marine loved anything to do with outdoors
By Colleen Krantz
Des Moines Register
Jefferson, Iowa — A 20-year-old Marine from Jefferson became the 11th Iowan to die in the Iraq war, perhaps killed in a fierce battle on April 6 at Ramadi, Iraq, friends said.
Lance Cpl. Ben Carman, a 2002 graduate of Jefferson-Scranton High School who played football and loved the outdoors, had been in Iraq less than two months. Carman’s mother told the school’s principal that Carman was shot in what essentially amounted to “hand-to-hand combat.”
“His body is in an area that remains under siege, so they can’t get to him and don’t know when his body will be brought home,” said Karen Younie, the principal who called Marie Carman before...
Occupation
2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Benjamin R. Carman was killed April 6 by hostile fire in Anbar province, Iraq.
Prayers & Messages
Benjamin R Carman
2008-04-09
May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.