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Ten years ago today PFC Daniel McGuire was KIA by enemy fire in Fallujah. I remember the 1st day he came to our company while we were in the mid of CAX. When we came in from field, I found him & his gear on my rack, I promptly chewed his ass & had him running laps around the hut
He was a super boot, having just graduated SOI & sent to us 1 month before we deployed, so naturally he was the target of a lot of jokes & light hazing. We all liked him a lot, he was the company's little brother. Been a decade & I still remember him clear as yesterday
Daniel was 19yo and 1 yr removed from high school. I wish I could say his death had meaning, that it was in service of a noble cause, but the fact that we still have Marines dying there 10 years later is testament to the wasted youth of our generation of service members
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