Zachariah S. Davis
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Age: 25
From: Twentynine Palms, Calif.
Assigned to the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Twentynine Palms, Calif.
Incident: Marine Sgt. Zachariah S. Davis was killed Jan. 6 by enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: January 06, 2005
Twentynine Palms Marine killed in Iraq
Associated Press
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — When Zachariah S. Davis received orders to return to Iraq last summer, the 25-year-old Marine sergeant had just witnessed the birth of his second son and was worried about leaving his family.
“We talked about it and he said he had a bad feeling,” said his father, Terry Davis. “But he’s a Marine and he knew he had to go. He understood.”
A vehicle commander based at Twentynine Palms, Davis was killed on Jan. 6 during enemy action in Iraq’s volatile Anbar province. His family was told the cause was a roadside bomb.
The son of a career Marine, Davis enlisted after graduating from Twentynine Palms High School and was among the first U.S. troops to infiltrate Baghdad before the war. He worked for the San Bernardino County Fire Department, and enjoyed the outdoors and Tom Clancy novels.
But much of his time was reserved for his...