Lee Hamilton Deal
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Age: 23
From: West Monroe, La.
Assigned to 2nd Marine Division Fleet, Marine Force Atlantic, Camp Lejeune, N.C. operationally
Incident: Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Lee Hamilton Deal was killed May 17 as a result of enemy action at Abu Ghraib, Iraq.
Died: May 17, 2006
Fallen ‘doc’ honored in Iraq
Marines of 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 5 paused to honor Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Lee Hamilton Deal at Camp Fallujah’s Chapel of Hope on May 28.
Deal, 23, was killed in action in Iraq on May 17.
“Our corpsmen are special to us Marines, and in every sense of the word, they are fellow Marines,” said Lt Col. James N. Bright, commanding officer of 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion.
Bright explained that Deal died “fearlessly clearing a suspected insurgent stronghold with his fellow Marines, willingly sacrificing his own safety to the benefit of his fellow Marines and to the successful accomplishment of the mission.”
Deal was described by 1st Lt. Craig Q. Reese, his platoon commander, as an outspoken, energetic, funny, caring young man who once performed first aid on a cow because that was part of what Deal saw as his responsibility.
“Every platoon needs that funny,...
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into the house and gate of heaven,
to enter into that gate, and dwell in that house where there shall be
no darkness nor dazzling, but one equal light;
no noise nor silence, but one equal music;
no fears nor hopes, but one equal possession;
no ends nor beginnings, but one equal eternity;
in the habitation of Thy glory and dominion,
world without end. Amen.
My sincere heartfelt condolences go out to Lee's family.