Jesse W. Strong
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Age: 24
From: Irasburg, Vt.
Assigned to the 4th Combat Engineer Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Marine Corps Reserve, Lynchburg, Va.
Incident: Marine Sgt. Jesse W. Strong was killed Jan. 26 by enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: January 26, 2005
Vermont Marine killed in Iraq
By Wilson Ring
Associated Press
MONTPELIER, Vt. — A Vermont Marine has been killed in a roadside attack in Iraq, the family says.
Sgt. Jesse Strong, 24, was one of four Marines belonging to a reserve company stationed in Lynchburg, Va., to be killed Wednesday, officials said.
Strong’s mother, Vicki Strong, said Thursday the family was told that he had been killed by a roadside bomb.
Strong had just graduated from Liberty University in Lynchburg and had attended one semester of seminary before his unit was activated. He arrived in Iraq in August and had been due to come home in March, said Vicki Strong.
“He had a love for his family and for Vermont,” his mother said. “He missed Vermont terribly. He had a deep love for God and his country.
“He didn’t give his life in vain,” she said.
Jesse’s father, Nathan Strong, is the pastor of the Methodist Church in Albany, a tiny...
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Is not to die.
Rest in peace