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thedrifter
10-16-06, 07:41 AM
Cranston post office dedicated to fallen Marine

October 15, 2006

CRANSTON, R.I. --A Cranston post office was dedicated Sunday to native Holly Charette, a Marine who was killed in June 2005 in Iraq when her convoy was ambushed in a suicide car bombing.

The 21-year-old former high school cheerleader served as a mail carrier in Iraq and had planned to apply for a job at the U.S. Postal Service when she left the military. She was part of a team of Marines assigned to checkpoints in Fallujah when she was killed.

Charette held the rank of lance corporal when she died. She was posthumously promoted to corporal. She had been in the Marines for three years.

"Holly was a happy and positive young woman loved by all those who knew her," U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., said at a dedication ceremony that drew 500 people.

Among the crowd were Charette's parents and brothers, 200 Marines, and elected officials.

Charette graduated from Cranston High School East in 2001, and joined the Marines a few months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. She was a cheerleader for the high school's hockey team, and worked at a CVS.

She was based at Camp Lejeune, N.C., and assigned to Headquarters Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force.

Charette was laid to rest with full military honors at Rhode Island Veterans Cemetery.

Ellie