Dustin J. Lee
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Age: 20
From: Quitman, Miss.
Assigned to Headquarters Battalion, Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, Ga.
Incident: Marine Cpl. Dustin J. Lee died March 21 from wounds received while conducting combat operations in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: March 21, 2007
Mississippi Marine killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. — A 20-year-old Marine from Mississippi’s Clarke County was killed March 21 in Iraq.
Cpl. Dustin Lee died in Fallujah during a mortar attack, Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Trooper Ronnie Carter told The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion-Ledger.
Lee, the son of MHP Trooper Jerome Lee, was serving with the 3/14 G Battery, 3rd Platoon. He had been in the Marines since graduating from Quitman High School in 2004, Carter said.
Lee, of the Stonewall community, was scheduled to return home next month, according to www.meridianstar.com.
The Department of Defense had not yet issued a statement about Lee’s death March 22.
Fallen Marine laid to rest
The Associated Press
QUITMAN, Miss. — Dustin Lee took his final drive up Highway 513 on March 31.
Family, friends and veteran soldiers honored and...