Ian W. Stewart, Marines, Corporal -- Rest In Peace

Ian W. Stewart , 21

Marines, Corporal

Based: Camp Pendleton

3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force

Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom

Died: December 12, 2004

Fallouja, Iraq

Single

Gender: Male

Hometown: Lake Hughes

High School: Quartz Hill High (Quartz Hill)

Burial: Buried in Illinois

Stewart entered the Marines three days after he finished high school, on Father's Day 2001. He completed boot camp the week of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Coincidently, he deployed to Iraq on Sept. 11 of this year.

Last week, Marine Cpl. Ian Wesley Stewart was killed by small-arms fire while his unit was clearing houses in Fallouja. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton.

"We were praying for his safety, but God moved differently. We trust God's judgment, but we don't care much for his time schedule," Stewart's father said. "But we have real peace.... We're confident we'll see him again, and that beautiful smile of his, in heaven."

Read the entire LA Times article about Marine Corporal Ian W. Stewart here, with more about Corporal Stewart at Military Times and find messages and remembrances here.