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Joseph J. Anzack Jr
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Name: Army Cpl. Joseph J. Anzack Jr.
Age: 20
From: Torrance, Calif.
Assigned to the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y. was captured May 12 by enemy forces in Al Taqa, Iraq, when his unit was attacked by insurgents using automatic fire and explosives. His body was recovered May 23 in Iraq. The circumstances surrounding his capture and death remain under investigation.
Incident: Army Cpl. Joseph J. Anzack Jr. died
Died: May 23, 2007
SoCal family mourns soldier found dead in Iraq river
By Jeremiah Marquez
The Associated Press
Age: 20
From: Torrance, Calif.
Assigned to the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y. was captured May 12 by enemy forces in Al Taqa, Iraq, when his unit was attacked by insurgents using automatic fire and explosives. His body was recovered May 23 in Iraq. The circumstances surrounding his capture and death remain under investigation.
Incident: Army Cpl. Joseph J. Anzack Jr. died
Died: May 23, 2007
SoCal family mourns soldier found dead in Iraq river
By Jeremiah Marquez
The Associated Press
TORRANCE, Calif. — In high school, Cpl. Joseph Anzack Jr. was surprisingly self-assured, knowing early what he wanted to do with his life: join the military.
“I just remember, as a sophomore or a junior in high school, he was set on it,” said Kyle Flynn, the soldier’s friend and football teammate at South High School. “’I’m ready to go,”’ Flynn recalled Anzack saying.
Now family and friends are mourning Anzack after receiving news May 23 that his body was found in the Euphrates River following an ambush in Iraq.
“They told us ‘We’re sorry to inform you the body we found has been identified as Joe,’ ” his aunt, Debbie Anzack, told The Associated Press while choking back tears. “I’m in disbelief.”
On May 24, the...
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the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.; was captured May 12 by enemy forces in Al Taqa, Iraq, when his unit was attacked by insurgents using automatic fire and explosives. His body was recovered May 23 in Iraq. The circumstances surrounding his capture and death remain under investigation.
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Army Cpl. Joseph J. Anzack Jr. died
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Joseph J. Anzack Jr
2009-04-02
May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.