WTHR-TV STORY ON SCOTT ZUBOWSKI (WITH A SLANT)

WTHR-TV
Chris Proffitt/Eyewitness News
New Castle, Nov. 14 - Twenty-year-old Marine Lance Corporal Scott Zubowski died in Iraq the way so many Americans fighting the war are dying. Zubowski was killed when the Humvee he was in hit a roadside bomb.
Another Marine also died Saturday when the bomb exploded during combat operations near Fallujah.
"He did what he wanted to do and did what his country asked of him. I'm very proud of him." Barbara Weitzel says it was her son's second tour of duty in Iraq since joining the Marines out of high school.
She likes to show an early picture of her sons at Grissom Air Force base. Years later Scott and older brother David both served as Marines in Iraq. "My boys were over there making sure that there aren't more planes going into World Trade Centers."
Lance Corporal Zubowski is one of over 2,000 American forces killed in Iraq, a victim of what's now the biggest killer of U.S. troops.
Zubowski's death follows the fourth-deadliest month for U.S. troops since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Most of the 96 Americans killed last month were hit by roadside bombs.
"My boy was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but it's where he chose to be."
Barbara spoke to her son for the last time nearly two weeks ago.
Lance Corporal Scott Zubowski, a husband, brother and son, is now the 49th person from Indiana to die in the Middle East.