Daniel R. Wyatt
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Age: 22
From: Caledonia, Wis.
Assigned to 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Marine Corps Reserve, Chicago
Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel R. Wyatt was killed Oct. 12 by enemy action in Babil province, Iraq.
Died: October 12, 2004
Wisconsin Marine killed in Iraq
By Xiao Zhang
Associated Press
RACINE, Wis. — Laura Watson will never forget the day Lance Cpl. Daniel Wyatt proposed.
It was March 9 — the same day he was called up for active duty that would eventually take him to Iraq, where he died this week.
“He proposed to me at eight o’clock in the morning, and at eight at night, 12 hours later, he got the call.
“I was bawling my eyes. I didn’t want him to go,” his fiancee said Thursday.
“He was like, ‘I’ve been training for three years. This is the time people need me to help.”’
Wyatt, 22, a rifleman from Racine, was killed Tuesday in the Babil province southwest of Baghdad, Chief Warrant Officer Terry Bellis told The Journal Times of Racine. Wyatt had been in Iraq for only a few weeks, said Bellis, of the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Center in Milwaukee.
Bellis said Wyatt served with Fox Company, 2nd Battalion,...