Daniel Scott R. Bubb
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Age: 19
From: Grottoes, Va.
Assigned to the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif. attached to 2nd Marine Division, II MEF (Forward)
Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel Scott R. Bubb was killed Oct. 17 by small-arms fire while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Rutbah, Iraq.
Died: October 17, 2005
Mother of soldier killed in Iraq: ‘He was everybody’s child’
Associated Press
GROTTOES, Va. — The mother of a 19-year-old killed in Iraq said her son’s killing was a loss for everyone in this Shenandoah Valley community.
Janey Harrah, 40, said even as a child, her son, Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel Scott Resner Bubb, was like an adult — cleaning up after himself after visiting a friend’s house, making him popular among parents.
“He had a home wherever he went,” Harrah said of Bubb, killed near the Jordanian border.
“He wasn’t just my child,” she told the Daily News-Record of Harrisonburg. “He was everybody’s child. He was born to the whole town of Grottoes, more or less.”
Harrah said the Defense Department informed her that Bubb was one of two Marines killed late Monday in Iraq near the border with Jordan. He was with the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion.
Bubb was killed the day before he was to...