Steve Morin Jr
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Age: 34
From: Arlington, Texas
Assigned to the 111th Engineer Battalion, 36th Infantry Division, Texas Army National Guard, Mineral Wells, Texas
Incident: Army Sgt. Steve Morin Jr. was killed Sept. 28 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee west of Umm Qasr, Iraq.
Died: September 28, 2005
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Arlington soldier made the military his career
Associated Press
DALLAS — From the time he finished high school, Sgt. Steve Morin Jr. made serving in the military his career, his family said.
“He always stood up for what he thought was right,” Gwendolyn Michelle Morin, his wife, said Thursday. “He was a fighter. He would never give up.”
On Wednesday, the Arlington soldier was killed west of Umm Qasr, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device went off, overturning the military vehicle in which he was riding, the Defense Department announced Thursday.
Gwendolyn Morin said she had talked to him about four hours before he died.
“He had called me to let me know what he was going to do that day,” she said. He expected to be able to call her more often because of the missions he was being assigned. Sometimes they would go 11 or 12 days between calls.
Morin told his wife how...