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Matthew K Serio
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Name: Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew K. Serio
Age: 21
From: North Providence, R.I.
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew K. Serio was killed April 5 by hostile fire in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: April 05, 2004
North Providence Marine killed in Iraq remembered as upbeat
By Brooke Donald
Associated Press
Age: 21
From: North Providence, R.I.
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew K. Serio was killed April 5 by hostile fire in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: April 05, 2004
North Providence Marine killed in Iraq remembered as upbeat
By Brooke Donald
Associated Press
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — In Lance Cpl. Matthew Serio’s last e-mail to his parents from the desert of Iraq, he requested homemade cookies and chewing tobacco.
“The guys had run out,” his father, Anthony, explained. “It was dry, dirty and hot, and he was looking out for his friends.”
Serio, 21, was killed near Fallujah, Iraq, on April 5, after his unit, the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, arrived to help quell an uprising in that city west of Baghdad, his father said.
His parents were contacted a day later by the Marines, who told them Serio was hit by shrapnel.
A former high school football...
Occupation
1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident
Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew K. Serio was killed April 5 by hostile fire in Anbar province, Iraq.
Prayers & Messages
Matthew K Serio
2010-03-04
My condolences go out to his family I only knew him briefly but he was a great man.
Matthew K Serio
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.