Sean L. Brock
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Age: 29
From: Redondo Beach, Calif.
Assigned to Headquarters Battalion, Marine Corps Base Camp Butler, Okinawa, Japan
Incident: Marine Capt. Sean L. Brock died Feb. 2 of wounds sustained due to enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: February 02, 2005
Family recalls Marine officer as loyal family man
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The last time Capt. Sean Lee Brock spoke to his mother from Iraq, he told her he was worried because it was eerily quiet and “when it gets quiet like that, something happens.”
Brock, 29, of Redondo Beach was fatally wounded in combat in Iraq’s Anbar province six hours after that phone call, his family said. He died Feb. 2, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.
The Marine’s wife of two years and his mother remembered the trim, dark-haired Marine this week, who loved scuba diving and soccer.
“Family was so important,” said his mother, Anita Brock, on Monday. “He was an excellent friend. And just loyal.”
Brock was able to remain close to family, even after joining the Marines when a typo put him and his fraternal twin Rayme in the same boot camp in San Diego, his brother said. Although twins are usually separated, Rayme Brock’s...