Nicholas Wilt

Name: Marine Lance Cpl. Nicholas Wilt
 

Age: 23
 

From: Tampa, Fla.
 

Assigned to 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif.
 

Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Nicholas Wilt was killed Sept. 3 by enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq.
 

Died: September 03, 2004
 

Marine from Tampa killed in Iraq

Associated Press
 

TAMPA, Fla. — A Tampa man who enlisted in the Marine Corps because of the outrage he felt over the Sept. 11 attacks was killed by enemy action on his second tour in Iraq, his family said.

Lance Cpl. Nicholas Wilt, 23, was killed Friday. Two officers from his unit were killed at the same time, the Department of Defense announced Sunday.

“Two Marines showed up here yesterday and said he had been killed in action” while en route to his position near the Syrian border, his widow, Mercedes Wilt, told The Tampa Tribune Saturday. “There was some kind of explosion,” she said.

Also killed were 1st Lt. Ronald Winchester, 25, of Rockville Center, N.Y., and Capt. Alan Rowe,...