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Jesse went home over Christmas in 2006, spending two weeks of leave in Aurora. About five weeks after returning to duty in Anbar province, Jesse sent his father a short message saying he was O.K. Aureliano never communicated with his son again. At 10 a.m. on April 16, four Marines...
Scherry's mother Marianne had tried to talk him out of joining the Marines, at least until he finished college. In 2004, when the Marines were assaulting Fallujah and suffering heavy casualties, she showed the newspaper to her only son. Look, she said, they are so young--just 19 and...
Scherry's mentor in the Marines was Evans, who felt closer to Scherry than to other recruits he had signed up. Scherry reminded Evans of himself as an eager young recruit looking to become an infantryman. Evans talked with Scherry for a long time that first night, assuring him he...
Scherry was deployed to Anbar province in March 2007. He died after only about a month there. The Marines who broke the news to his mother said there had been an accident. Scherry had been riding in the turret of a humvee when he reached to get a low-hanging...
In the days after Scherry's death, Marianne asked the Marines who had come to her house if they could please send Evans, who had never helped a family grieve before. Scherry is the first of Evans' recruits to die in Iraq. "You find yourself lying awake at night looking...