Marco A. Silva
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Age: 27
From: Alva, Fla.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Marco A. Silva was killed March 13 when he came under small arms fire and an improvised explosive device detonated during combat operations near Ramadi, Iraq. Also
Died: March 13, 2006
101st Airborne soldier loved his job, says sister
NARANJA, Fla. — A Tennessee soldier who grew up in Florida was killed in Iraq when an improvised explosive device hit his battalion, joining five other 101st Airborne soldiers killed this week.
Staff Sgt. Marco A. Silva, 27, died Monday near Ramadi, the Defense Department said. The Department of Defense listed his hometown as Alva, Fla., although he has lived in Cumberland City, Tenn., since 2001.
He will be buried in Naranja next week.
Sgt. Corey A. Dan, 22, of Norway, Maine, also died in the incident.
Both men were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, based on Fort Campbell, Ky.
In an e-mail Silva sent to his family last month, he told them he was fighting in Iraq so you “don’t have to suffer with the war,” family members said Friday.
“That was his job. He loved to do what he did,” his sister...
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Prayers & Messages
Serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can, and
Wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship
as the pathway to peace.
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His will;
that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him forever in the next.
Amen.
My sincere heartfelt condolences to Marco's family