David J. Coullard
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Age: 32
From: Glastonbury, Conn.
Assigned to 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, Brook Park, Ohio attached to Regimental Combat Team 2, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward)
Incident: Marine Sgt. David J. Coullard was killed Aug. 1 by enemy small-arms fire while conducting dismounted operations outside Haditha, Iraq. Also
Died: August 01, 2005
Connecticut Marine among six killed in Iraq
By Noreen Gillespie
Associated Press
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — On Sunday, Marine Sgt. David Coullard sent his mother an e-mail from Iraq, letting her know he was safe.
Like every e-mail he sent her, it was brief. But it also had recent photos that his mother had been asking him to send. In one, the 32-year-old Glastonbury native is in front of bright blue water with a fellow Marine. In another, he’s posing in the desert with his weapon.
“Love you,” he ended the note, adding that his time was almost up on the computer.
On Monday, Anita Dziedzic found out her son was killed in Iraq. He was the 28th service member with Connecticut ties to be killed in Iraq or Afghanistan since March 2002.
Military officials said Coullard, a sniper in the Ohio-based 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, and five comrades were engaged by terrorists and killed by small-arms fire in Haditha, which U.S....