Michael A. Marzano
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Age: 28
From: Greenville, Pa.
Assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, Phoenix, Ariz. attached to 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward)
Incident: Marine Sgt. Michael A. Marzano was killed May 7 in an explosion caused by a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device in a suicidal attack while he was conducting combat operations in Hadithah, Iraq.
Died: May 07, 2005
Marine with Arizona ties is killed in Iraq
Associated Press
GREENVILLE, Pa. — A Marine whose reserve company was based in Phoenix was killed when a bomb in a vehicle exploded in Iraq, according to military officials.
Sgt. Michael A. Marzano, 28, of Greenville, about 70 miles north of Pittsburgh near the Ohio border, was killed Saturday in Hadithah, the Defense Department announced Monday.
“He’s wanted to go into the Marines since I can remember,” said his father, Albert Marzano of Greenville, also a Marine Corps veteran, who served in Vietnam in 1969.
Michael Marzano graduated from Sharon High School in 1995, but was refused admission by the Marines because he tore a knee ligament in a high school wrestling tournament his senior year, his father said. Marzano had surgery and kept reapplying to the Marines until he was accepted in 1999. He served on active duty until 2003.
In the reserves since, Marzano...
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Prayers & Messages
I love and Miss You everyday, I want you here with us, I know God had better plans i can't see it. I can remember the last time we talked remembering our childhood growing up. I am proud of you I am so glad your dreams came true being a boxer and solider in the USMC.
Tell everyone hello up there. I can't wait to see you again.