Adam J. Strain
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Age: 20
From: Smartsville, Calif.
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif. attached to 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward)
Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Adam J. Strain was killed Aug. 3 by enemy small-arms fire while conducting combat operations in Ramadi, Iraq.
Died: August 03, 2005
California Marine killed in Iraq
Associated Press
BURLINGTON, Vt. — A Marine whose parents live in North Hero was shot dead by a sniper in the Iraqi city of Ramadi.
Lance Cpl. Adam Strain, 20, of Smartsville, Calif., had wanted to be a Marine since he could play with toy soldiers, his family said.
Strain grew up in California, but regularly traveled to Vermont visiting his mother’s side of the family. Two months ago, his parents moved to a North Hero home that Adam Strain never got to see.
“He was so proud to be a Marine,” said Karen Strain, his mother. “Since 9/11, he said he was going to do this for sure.”
“Terrorism got to him,” said Robert Strain, his father.
“I begged him not to” enlist, but he said, ‘Someone has to stand up and fight, and that’s what I’m going to do,”’ said Karen Strain.
Adam Strain was sent to Iraq seven months ago. He had been accepted to Norwich University, but...