Racine Marine serving in Iraq killed in explosion

Racine Marine serving in Iraq killed in explosion

By MEGAN TWOHEY

mtwohey@journalsentinel.com

http://www.greenbaynewschron.com/page.html?article=128107

http://www.jsonline.com/news/racine/oct04/266877.asp

http://www.greenbaynewschron.com/page.html?article=128072

Racine - Laura Watson didn't think twice about marching up to Daniel Wyatt and introducing herself when he caught her eye in an art class at Racine Horlick High School in the spring of 2001. "I thought he was hot," Watson recalled Thursday. "And I'm not shy. So I just went up to him and said, 'Hi.' "

The encounter launched what became a true romance. But their blossoming relationship came to an abrupt end this week when Watson received word that Wyatt had been killed in an explosion, just a month into his duty as a U.S. Marine Corps reservist in Iraq. He was 22.



Dawn Watson comforts her daughter, Laura, Friday, during a memorial service for Daniel Wyatt in Racine. Laura Watson had become engaged to Wyatt 12 hours before his unit was called up to go to Iraq (AP Photo/The Journal Times, Gregory Shaver).

"He proposed to me at eight o'clock in the morning, and at eight at night, 12 hours later, he got the call. "I was bawling my eyes. I didn't want him to go," his fiancee said Thursday. When asked for her own view on the war in Iraq, she declined to comment.



Marine Reserve Lance Cpl. Daniel Wyatt is shown in a 2001 Horlick High School yearbook photo. Wyatt, who served with served with Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines was killed Tuesday. He was 22. (AP Photo/Racine Journal Times)


ON EDIT: RIP Daniel Wyatt ------------------saigon

These are the stories that need telling---- they put a human face on this CLUSTERFUCK </RANT>

the cost of war is so painful and the cost is lost on our country-the war isn't real to most Americans-some other person's kid is doing the serving and dying-it is indeed Biblical our pride and pride goes before the fall except those that pay for the fall are the Daniel Wyatts of the world-Shrub will have his million dollar ranch to retire to

lives never lived, children never born, children never knowing the fathers, parents burying the children, empty chairs the world over, caused the the feckless and reckless policies of this maladministration.

I weep for them all.

RIP Daniel

:cry: