Narson B Sullivan
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Age: 21
From: North Brunswick, N.J.
Assigned to the 411th Military Police Company based in Fort Hood, Texas
Incident: Army Spc. Narson B. Sullivan was killed by a non-combat weapon discharge in Iraq. The incident is under investigation.
Died: April 25, 2003
Teachers recall Narson Sullivan rollerblading through the hallways and courtyards of his high school — a tall, athletic and handsome kid whose enthusiasm for life was infectious.
“You’d go out there to admonish him about violating the school rules by rollerblading in the courtyard, and the next thing you knew, you had the darn things on your own feet and he was teaching you how to skate,” said Rob Allen, a teacher at Middlesex County Vocational and Technical High School in North Brunswick, N.J.
Sullivan, 21, graduated in 2000 and joined the Army with his longtime friend, Matthew Richter. They had expected to serve on the buddy system but got separated. Sullivan, based at Fort Hood in Texas, was killed April 25 in Iraq when he was cleaning his weapon and it...