
BOISE, Idaho — A Marine from Idaho was killed while securing a bridge in northern Iraq.
Capt. Alan Rowe, 35, died instantly Friday in Iraq’s Anbar province. It was the fourth time Rowe had gone overseas with the military. He was the seventh Idaho serviceman to die in the Iraq war.
“He did it. He didn’t question it. He was doing it for our country,” said Diana Pauls, Rowe’s sister. “He knows he was helping the Iraqi people. That was what he wanted to do all his life.”
Lance Cpl. Nicholas Wilt, 23, of Tampa, Fla., and 1st Lt. Ronald Winchester, 25, of Rockville Center, N.Y., also were killed.
Rowe, a former Hagerman resident, is survived by his wife, a son and a...