Stanley J. Lapinski
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Age: 35
From: Las Vegas
Assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.
Incident: Army Cpl. Stanley J. Lapinski was killed June 11 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle in Baghdad.
Died: June 11, 2005
Las Vegas soldier killed in Iraq
By Ken Ritter
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — Cpl. Stanley J. Lapinski gave up a job at a southern Nevada electronics store to join the Army after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
“Of course, as a mother, I tried to argue with him,” his mother, Gaye Lapinski, said Wednesday from her home in Beverly Hills, Fla. “That didn’t change anything. “He said, ‘Mom, we can’t allow someone to come into our country and do this to our people.”’
Lapinski, 35, died Saturday when an explosive device detonated near his vehicle in Baghdad, the Defense Department said Tuesday. His father, Stan Lapinski, said three others in the Humvee were wounded.
A college graduate with a degree in psychology, Lapinski turned down Army offers to attend officer school, his father said. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, at Fort Stewart, Ga.
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