Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Veashna Muy, Lance Corporal -- Rest In Peace

Veashna Muy, 20

Marines, Lance Corporal
Based: Camp Lejeune, N.C.
8th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: June 23, 2005
Fallouja, Iraq
Single
Gender: Male
Hometown: Los Angeles
High School: Jordan High (Long Beach)
Burial: Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, Long Beach
Muy, born in Long Beach, was the son of Cambodian refugees who came to the U.S. after the Vietnam War.
The 20-year-old was among six troops killed in a suicide car-bomb attack on their convoy in Fallouja, Iraq. Five Marines, two of them women, and a female sailor were killed in the attack.
Read more about Lance Corporal Veashna Muy here and here.

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