
CARLISLE, Pa. — A North Carolina-based Marine killed in Iraq complained about the food and the heat, but nothing else, his mother said.
Lance Cpl. Nicholas B. Morrison, 23, of Carlisle, Pa., died Friday during hostile action in Iraq’s Anbar province.
He joined the Marine Corps 16 months ago and planned to eventually become a state trooper, said his mother, Peggy Morrison, of West Pennsboro Township in Cumberland County.
“He cared about what he was doing,” Peggy Morrison said. “He believed in the war. He was afraid, but not afraid to do what was right.”
Morrison died when an explosive hit the Humvee in which he was riding, his mother said.
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