California’s War Dead

    Dustin M. Shumney

    Dustin M. Shumney, 30

    Marines, 1st Lieutenant
    Rutbah (near), Iraq
    Gender: Male
    Hometown: Benicia
    He asked for gummy bears and socks, because the guys don't really have any place to wash theirs. He also asked me for cocoa. They can't have chocolate there because it melts.
    — Shama Shumney, mother, on her son's final call home

    After high school, Shumney thought of becoming a police officer but joined the Marine Corps after a friend persuaded him that it offered better career opportunities.
    Times obituary
    « Joseph B. Spence, 01/26/2005
    Mourad Ragimov, 01/26/2005 »
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