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, the son of missionaries, joined the Marines three days after graduating from high school. He completed boot camp the week of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Michael D. Anderson Jr., 12/14/2004

Edwin William Roodhouse, 12/05/2004

Four memories of Ian W. Stewart

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So much time has pasted since Ian went to be with the Lord. I am sure most people who knew Ian hardly think of him at all any more. But not his parents or his family.

I was Ian's youth leader, and well Ian was one of those kids you loved even when he irritated you beyond belief. You see Ian had this smile that could calm any situation.

Some folks even thought Ian was just a "I dont give a rip" attitude teen. But he wasnt. Ian wanted to figure out who he was and where he belonged. He just didnt know how to express it. Like most any other teen. But Ian, he needed to belong to something bigger than himself. So he joined the Marines.

I remember when he came and told me and how the pride, (and fear) of the choice he made just beamed through his smile. We had a chance to talk just before he shipped out and his excitement and fear was all over the place. He told me he hoped this would make him a man.........WOW was I amazed at the MAN who stood before me.

To this MAN who died for people he didnt know when he arrived, but he grew to love and appreciate because of who he was and how he was raised in God's Love, and to his family I want to say, Ian did not die alone, he did not die in vane. Our Lord was with him always and God's Love shined through this young MAN.

Ian is a warrior, a soldier of God who delivered the message of Love, even in times of war.

Ian is loved and he is NOT FORGOTTEN.

God's peace and Love

” — Roy Dull, April 18, 2012 at 10:29 a.m.

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