
HARTFORD, Vt. — A 20-year-old Marine from Hartford has been killed in fighting in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.
Jeffery Holmes was killed on Thanksgiving Day.
“Part of you is gone,” said his mother, Patti Holmes. “It can’t be replaced.”
The military said that two Marines were killed by insurgents Thursday while conducting house-clearing operations in Fallujah, a former-rebel stronghold.
Lt. Gen. John F. Sattler, commanding general of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said the U.S. troops were ambushed Thursday by insurgents from inside a house as they entered it.
Jeffery Scott Holmes — a 2003 Hartford High School graduate — was one of those two,...