Michael Edward Curtin
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Age: 23
From: South Plains, N.J.
Assigned to 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.
Incident: Army Cpl. Michael Edward Curtin was killed in a suicide car-bombing near Najaf, Iraq.
Died: March 29, 2003
New Jersey native a ‘perfect type young man’
From wire reports
In four years of football for the Howell High Rebels, Mike Curtin never started a game.
And he never missed a practice.
“He was one those perfect type young men,” his former coach, Cory Davies, said. “He was just a very courteous, cooperative person.”
Army Cpl. Michael Curtin of Howell, N.J., was killed Saturday, March 29, in the Najaf car bombing.
Brown-haired, blue-eyed and square-jawed, Curtin, 23, had an All-American appeal, according to his sister, Katie Curtin. He was a homebody who would rather curl up with a good book than spend a night on the town.
“It’s just really sad,” she said. “He was perfect, you know? Everything he did was what his family would have wanted him to do.”
Curtin’s parents, Michael and Joan Curtin, issued a statement through the Army.
“Our son, Michael, was a kind and courageous young...