NOTES:

i  Gordon Trowbridge, “Marine Sacrifices His Life for Others in Grenade Blast,” 
The Army Times, November 20, 2004.  

ii  Jeff Jacoby, “Death of a Marine,” Boston Globe, May 29, 2005.  

iii  Caitlin Rother, “Another Tragedy for Grieving Family,” 
 The San Diego Union-Tribune, November 21, 2004, pg. B-1.  

iv  Ibid

v  Ibid 

vi  “Siblings of San Diego Marine Say He Was Prepared for the Chance of Death,” 
  Associated Press State and Local Wire,” November 22, 2004.  

vii  Caitlin Rother, “Another Tragedy for Grieving Family”.

viii  Robert J. Caldwell, “Fallujah Battle Inflicted Crippling Defeat on Terrorists,”
 The San Diego Union-Tribune, December 5, 2004, pg. G-1. 

ix  Ibid 

x  Gregg K. Kakesako, Marine Threw Himself on Grenade, Say Comrades,” 
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin, December 4, 2004.   

xi  Lance Corporal T.J. Kaemmerer, “A Hero’s Sacrifice,” December 2, 2004,
http://www.usmc.mil/ Story Identification # 2004123102943

xii  Ibid

xiii  Katrina Kratovac, “Marines: Fallujah Battle a Source of Pride,”
Associated Press, December 1, 2004.  

xiv  John E. Mulligan, “Marines: Fallujah Turned War for U.S.,”
The Providence Journal, March 28, 2005.  

xv  Jeff Jacoby, “Death of a Marine”

xvi  Gordon Trowbridge, “Marine Sacrifices His Life for Others in Grenade Blast”

xvii  Bob Woodruff, “Story of Bravery: Marine Sacrifices His Life for His Platoon,”
World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, November 25, 2004.  

xviii  Ibid