Derek L. Gardner, 20
Marines
,
Lance Corporal
Based:
Camp Pendleton
Died:
September 6, 2004
Fallouja (9 mi. north of),
Iraq
— Derek Gardner, in an interview with The Times before he deployed
After arriving in the volatile Sunni Triangle, Gardner was assigned to one of the most dangerous jobs possible: driving trucks loaded with Marines, ammunition and explosives through streets and highways vulnerable to attack by insurgents.
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