Age 20. Lance corporal, U.S. Marine Corps. 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force
Nonhostile accident, Anbar province
Leaving home in Rocky River, Ohio, was hard for Daniel Scherry. His mother and two sisters were in tears when his Marine Corps recruiter, Staff Sergeant Eric Evans, went to pick him up for basic training in the spring of 2006. Soon Scherry was crying too. "His sisters were his world," says Evans. Their names, Kacie and Lauren, were tattooed on the inside of his arms. To console Scherry, Evans told the young Marine the recruiter would be...
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