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09-17-07, 10:45 AM
Family identifies Marine killed Friday in Iraq
The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Sep 17, 2007 5:35:18 EDT
PENNSAUKEN, N.J. — A Marine from Pennsauken who just hours earlier had been talking with his parents about his impending return home was killed in Iraq on Friday.
Cpl. Terry Allen was shot in the head while he was on the Al Asad Air Base in Anbar province, apparently by a sniper, his parents said Saturday.
John and Connie Allen said they’d just talked with their son hours before he was shot, and that the 21-year-old was scheduled to come home from Iraq on Tuesday.
“We really thought we were in the clear,” John Allen told the Courier-Post of Cherry Hill for Sunday’s newspapers. “We thought about how lucky we were he was coming home.”
Terry Allen, a former football player at Bishop Eustace Preparatory School, enlisted in the Marines before he even graduated from high school in 2004.
“He was a nice kid. It’s just going to affect everybody,” Tori Wishnick, the school’s athletic director told The Philadelphia Inquirer. “It’s just so shocking.”
The South Jersey Marine’s body is scheduled to be flown to Dover Air Force Base early this week.
Ellie
The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Sep 17, 2007 5:35:18 EDT
PENNSAUKEN, N.J. — A Marine from Pennsauken who just hours earlier had been talking with his parents about his impending return home was killed in Iraq on Friday.
Cpl. Terry Allen was shot in the head while he was on the Al Asad Air Base in Anbar province, apparently by a sniper, his parents said Saturday.
John and Connie Allen said they’d just talked with their son hours before he was shot, and that the 21-year-old was scheduled to come home from Iraq on Tuesday.
“We really thought we were in the clear,” John Allen told the Courier-Post of Cherry Hill for Sunday’s newspapers. “We thought about how lucky we were he was coming home.”
Terry Allen, a former football player at Bishop Eustace Preparatory School, enlisted in the Marines before he even graduated from high school in 2004.
“He was a nice kid. It’s just going to affect everybody,” Tori Wishnick, the school’s athletic director told The Philadelphia Inquirer. “It’s just so shocking.”
The South Jersey Marine’s body is scheduled to be flown to Dover Air Force Base early this week.
Ellie