Based: Camp Pendleton
2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: September 6, 2004
Fallouja (9 mi. north of), Iraq
Single
Gender: Male
Hometown: Concord
High School: Concord High (Concord)
Burial: Memory Gardens Cemetery, Concord, Calif.
A world away from his little sister, Mick R. Bekowsky sounded tired and homesick in calls home from Iraq, but he always asked Haley, 12, how her softball team was doing. "They were eight years apart and had two different lives," Brian Bekowsky said of his children. "They both thought they'd have plenty of time to be brother and sister."Read more about Marine Corporal Mick R. Bekowsky here and do visit his Guest Book here.
The 21-year-old assaultman from Concord, Calif., was killed Sept. 6 by a car bomb in Iraq's Anbar province. He was stationed at Camp Pendleton.
The Marine liked to race cars, hunt and fish. His father said he wanted to be "the life of the party."
"He was a macho 21-year-old boy who thought he was immortal," said his mother, Joan Bekowsky.
Bekowsky enlisted a month after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, shortly after graduating from high school. He was killed weeks before he was due to return home.
"He was the boy next door, the boy you went to high school with, the guy who works at McDonald's," the Marine's father said.
"We picture them as soldiers carrying M-16s, but they're boys."
— Associated Press
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