Andrew W. Nowacki
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Age: 24
From: South Euclid, Ohio
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, Erie, Pa.
Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Andrew W. Nowacki was killed Feb. 26 by enemy action in Babil province, Iraq.
Died: February 26, 2005
Marine from northeast Ohio killed in Iraq
Associated Press
PAINESVILLE, Ohio — A northeast Ohio Marine on his second tour of duty in Iraq was killed by a roadside bomb, his family said.
Andy Nowacki, 24, died Saturday while serving as a gunner on a Humvee that was protecting a truck convoy south of Baghdad, said his mother, Sheila Nowacki of Painesville.
“He’s been in Iraq more than he’s been home the last two years,” she said. “But he was really OK with being over there because he saw the oppression and the cruelty that had happened to the people there.
“He thought a lot of the Iraqi people and he was willing to go back because he thought we were doing so much good.”
Nowacki graduated from Brush High School in the Cleveland suburb of Lyndhurst in 1998, and enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve the following fall.
His commitment to the reserves was almost up, his mother said, but they “pulled him back...
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