
ORANGE, Texas — The uncle of Lance Cpl. Shane Goldman said it was his nephew’s dream to become a Marine.
“Ever since he could walk and talk, he wanted to be a Marine. He made it,” Neal Davis told close to 1,000 mourners gathered at North Orange Baptist Church for the funeral of the 19-year-old, who died April 5 in Iraq.
Davis, a 61-year-old retired Marine, told the mourners that the last time he saw his nephew was three days before Goldman shipped out for duty in Japan and later for his second tour in Iraq.
During a conversation that lasted for more than an hour at a restaurant outside the gates of Camp Pendleton, Calif., Davis said Goldman told him he was worried he...