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John J McKenna IV
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Name: Marine Capt. John J. McKenna IV
Age: 30
From: Brooklyn, N.Y.
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, Albany, N.Y.
Incident: Marine Capt. John J. McKenna IV was killed Aug. 16 while conducting combat operations in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: August 16, 2006
Marine’s memory honored in Brooklyn
Age: 30
From: Brooklyn, N.Y.
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, Albany, N.Y.
Incident: Marine Capt. John J. McKenna IV was killed Aug. 16 while conducting combat operations in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: August 16, 2006
Marine’s memory honored in Brooklyn
NEW YORK — A state police trooper and Marine Corps platoon commander killed in Iraq was remembered Friday at his parish church, just a few blocks from the Brooklyn street where he played stickball and soldier as a boy.
Family, friends and former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani turned out for the farewell to Capt. John J. McKenna IV, of Clifton Park, who was fatally shot Aug. 16 while on a foot patrol in Fallujah. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion 25th Marines, a reserve unit based in Albany.
The 30-year-old Brooklyn native was one of two members of the unit killed that day, along with Lance Corporal Michael D. Glover, of Garden City. Glover, a full-time law student at Pace University before his deployment, was to...
Occupation
2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, Albany, N.Y.
Incident
Marine Capt. John J. McKenna IV was killed Aug. 16 while conducting combat operations in Fallujah, Iraq.
Prayers & Messages
John J McKenna IV
2008-04-09
May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.