Michael P. Hodshire
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Age: 25
From: North Adams, Mich.
Assigned to 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Incident: Marine Sgt. Michael P. Hodshire died Oct. 30 of wounds sustained Oct. 29 from an improvised explosive device during combat operations near Nasser Wa Salaam, Iraq.
Died: October 30, 2005
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Hodshire dreamed of being a Marine
Associated Press
NORTH ADAMS, Mich. — A U.S. Marine from Hillsdale County who was serving in Iraq died Sunday near Fallujah, a family spokesman said.
Funeral arrangements for Sgt. Michael Paul Hodshire, 25, of North Adams were incomplete Sunday night, Kenneth Kurtz of Kurtz Funeral Home in Hillsdale said in a statement. He said the military told the family that Hodshire was killed by indirect gunfire. The family was not available for comment, Kurtz said.
The Pentagon had not confirmed the death as of Sunday night.
Hodshire long dreamed of joining the Marine Corps, and he entered basic training four days after graduating from North Adams-Jerome High School in 1999.
“That’s been a passion of his from his school days. He wanted to be a Marine,” Kurtz said.
Hodshire was deployed in Iraq from October 2003 through June 2004, then...
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