Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Corporal Charles O. Palmer -- Rest In Peace


Marines, Corporal
Based: Camp Lejeune, N.C.
8th Communication Battalion, II Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: May 5, 2007
Khaldiya, Iraq
Married, 3 children
Gender: Male
Hometown: Manteca
High School: Manteca High (Manteca)
Burial: Burwood Cemetery, Escalon, Calif.

Charles O. Palmer II could never quite get the Marine Corps out of his system. After a four-year stint that ended in the mid-1990s, he never found another job "equal to the Marines." That's what he wrote in a letter to the service, explaining why he wanted to reenlist.

"It is home," he wrote in late 2005. Nowhere else had he found such camaraderie, loyalty and comfort.


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