Jeremy D. Bow
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Age: 20
From: Lemoore, Calif.
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Base Hawaii
Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Jeremy D. Bow was killed Oct. 30 by enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: October 30, 2004
Lemoore Marine among eight killed in Iraq attack
Associated Press
LEMOORE, Calif. — A 20-year-old Marine from Lemoore was among eight Hawaii-based Marines killed in Iraq in the deadliest attack against the U.S. military in six months.
Lance Cpl. Jeremy D. Bow died Saturday when a car bomb exploded next to a truck outside Fallujah in Iraq’s Anbar province, the Pentagon said Monday. The attack came as U.S. forces prepare for a major assault on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah ahead of Iraqi elections due by Jan. 31.
Bow belonged to the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division of the Marine Expeditionary Force based at Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay. He is the first Kings County soldier, and the fifth from the San Joaquin Valley, to die in the Iraq war.
“Everyone is just in shock,” said family friend Shelly Fortner. “He was 20. Just a baby. Too young to die.”
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