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Michael J Esposito Jr
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Name: Army Sgt. Michael J. Esposito Jr.
Age: 22
From: Brentwood, N.Y.
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y.
Incident: Army Sgt. Michael J. Esposito Jr. was killed March 18 when his team came under small-arms fire while clearing a village in Dehrawood, Afghanistan.
Died: March 18, 2004
Funeral held for first Long Island soldier killed in Afghanistan
By Frank Eltman
Associated Press
Age: 22
From: Brentwood, N.Y.
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y.
Incident: Army Sgt. Michael J. Esposito Jr. was killed March 18 when his team came under small-arms fire while clearing a village in Dehrawood, Afghanistan.
Died: March 18, 2004
Funeral held for first Long Island soldier killed in Afghanistan
By Frank Eltman
Associated Press
BRENTWOOD, N.Y. — Two weeks after he telephoned his mother to warn her he was going out on a “bad mission,” Army Sgt. Michael J. Esposito Jr. was remembered at his funeral Monday as a fiercely loyal soldier who had already served in Kuwait when he re-enlisted after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Esposito, 22, was the first soldier from Long Island to be killed in the fighting in Afghanistan; two other Long Islanders — also from the Brentwood-Bay Shore community — have died in the war in Iraq.
“Both Mike and his family knew why he was there,” the Rev. Gerry Twomey told hundreds of mourners at St. Luke’s Catholic Church. Citing a...
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the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y.
Incident
Army Sgt. Michael J. Esposito Jr. was killed March 18 when his team came under small-arms fire while clearing a village in Dehrawood, Afghanistan.
Prayers & Messages
Michael J Esposito Jr
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.