Marine Lance Cpl. Jonathan R. Spears
21, of Molino, Fla.
assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Twentynine Palms, Calif.; attached to 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward); killed Oct. 23 by enemy small-arms fire while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Ramadi, Iraq.
Tags: tampaCpl. Spears grew up in Molino, played four years on the Tate High School football team’s offensive line and graduated in 2002… He joined the Marines a year later. He told his parents he was proud to serve in Iraq and proud to know he was helping nurture a fledgling democracy.
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June 13th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.
- Sir Arthur Helps