Kelly M. Cannan
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Age: 21
From: Lowville, N.Y.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif. attached to 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward)
Incident: Marine Cpl. Kelly M. Cannan was killed April 20 when an improvised explosive device detonated while he was conducting combat operations in Ramadi, Iraq. Also
Died: April 20, 2005
New York Marine killed in Iraq
Associated Press
LOWVILLE, N.Y. — A Marine from northern New York was killed Wednesday in Iraq, the Department of Defense said.
Cpl. Kelly Cannan, 21, of Lowville, was one of two soldiers who died when a bomb exploded near their Humvee in Ramadi. Cannan was a 2001 graduate of Lowville Academy, 60 miles northeast of Syracuse.
Cannan had worked part-time in the maintenance department at the Lewis County Courthouse until enlisting in the Marine Corps in September 2001.
“He was close to a lot of people here,” said Frank J. Archer, a maintenance worker at the courthouse. “Matt wasn’t just a co-worker Matt was a friend. He always gave 110 percent, no matter what he did. Matt liked everybody, and everybody like Matt.”
Cannan, who last visited the courthouse in the fall, recently volunteered for a third tour in Iraq so fellow Marines with wives and children wouldn’t have to go. “He...