
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Funeral services were held this week for a Marine Corps officer from New Jersey who was killed during a gun battle in Iraq.
2nd Lt. John Thomas “J.T.” Wroblewski, 25, of Jefferson Township, died April 7, one day after he was wounded during a shootout with insurgents in the Al Anbar Province. Wroblewski, who was deployed shortly after being married last July, was one of at least 12 Americans killed in the battle.
Wroblewski’s wife, Joanna, and his father, John, both delivered eulogies during Wednesday’s service at Our Lady of the Mountain Church in Washington Township. Wroblewski, the first Morris County resident to die in Iraq,...