Mark C. Warren
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Age: 44
From: LaGrande, Ore.
Assigned to the 3d Battalion, 116th Armor Cavalry Regiment, 116th Brigade Combat Team (Forward), Oregon Army National Guard, LaGrande, Ore.
Incident: Army Sgt. 1st Class Mark C. Warren died Jan. 31 of non-combat-related injuries at Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq.
Died: January 31, 2005
Cause of soldier’s death in Iraq still unknown
Associated Press
LA GRANDE, Ore. — Governor Ted Kulongoski has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff Monday in honor of a fallen Oregon soldier, whose death in Iraq remains a mystery.
Forty-four-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Mark Warren was serving in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk alongside his son, Lt. Christopher Warren.
The father was discovered dead last Monday at Forward Operating Base Warrior near Kirkuk.
On Saturday, having accompanied his father’s body back from Iraq to their hometown of La Grande, 24-year-old Christopher Warren declined to discuss the details of the death, saying he did not know them.
“I’m waiting like everybody else for the autopsy,” the younger Warren told The Oregonian newspaper.
The death, which the Army continues to investigate, was not combat related, said Sgt. Mike Cummings, a Salem-based spokesman for the Oregon National...
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Prayers & Messages
The worse scenario is to die prematurely due to error...............oh GOD. But you served you country as you set out to do. May you rest in peace knowing that you achieved your goal.
God bless you and your family...and give you peace. Rest in peace...knowing you did the job you set out to do.
Sincerely,
Mary