GOD REST HIS SOUL

It's 5:38 a.m. and Patrick and Junior are on their computer. It's 46 degrees out and dark.

We learned yesterday that Scott Zubowski, a high school friend and team mate of Junior's became the 49th Indianan to die in Iraq. Scott was a Lance Corporal in the Marine Corps and was killed by an enemy explosive device. He leaves behind a young wife he married in January. The high school is flying the flag at half mast. If he has a cemetery funeral service, we will honor the vow we made several blogs ago to do everything we can to ensure that service is not disturbed by the enemy's unwitting agents, the anti-Christ protestors that dishonored the sservices of a Kendalville soldier several weeks ago. So it goes. In the photo, Scott is on the left, the normal looking one in the Marines T-shirt next to Junior...

Scott was Coalition Casualty # 2264 of Operation Enduring Freedom. He was a member of Regimental Combat Team 8, 2nd Marine Division, II MEF (Forward). He was killed in action Nov. 12, 2005. Cause of death was Hostile fire--IED ATTACK. at Al Almiriyah (South of Fallujah) while conducting combat operations against the enemy. Scott and another Marine were killed. Scott was a rear passenger in the military vehicle when it struck the device. When the bomb expoloded, a third Marine was injured and two others slightly injured.

This was Scott's 2nd tour, that began in July 2005. His first tour was from Feb. to Oct. 2004. His wass the 49th Indiana fatality of the war. He has a brother currently surving in Iraq...

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