Post by admin4laney on Aug 5, 2005 9:16:58 GMT -5
Fallen Marine Will Never Meet Newborn Son
Mom Had Gut Feeling Day Of Bombing
POSTED: 5:31 pm EDT August 4, 2005
UPDATED: 8:26 pm EDT August 4, 2005
CINCINNATI -- Lance Cpl. David Kreuter, 26, never got to meet his 7-week-old son.
News 5 learned that Kreuter was one of five Tri-state Marines killed in the roadside bombing that claimed 14 Marines Wednesday.
Kreuter, a graduate of St. Xavier High School and the University of Cincinnati, had been in Iraq since March. His son, Christian, was born in June. Kreuter and his wife, Chrystina, married last fall, News 5's Brian Hamrick reported.
"He was going to be a really good husband and a good father," said Pat Murray, Kreuter's mother. "I feel really badly that his wife got to know him (for) such a short time period (and) that his son will never know him. That bothers me a lot."
Kreuter majored in criminal justice at UC, but he wanted to make the Marine Corps his career and planned to go to Officers' Training School, his family said.
Relatives said Kreuter liked every part of being a Marine -- from the uniform to working the most dangerous missions in the most dangerous part of the world.
"He wanted to be the best. He wanted to do the hardest thing possible," Kreuter's father, Ken, said. "(As) near as we can tell, he was involved in just about every major mission or event over there."
Kreuter's mother said she woke up Wednesday knowing something was wrong. When she learned Marines had been killed in Iraq, she said she knew instantly.
"They told me it was a soldier in this area and I knew. I knew right then," Murray said.
Kreuter also left behind two sisters who were so inspired by his running ability, that they also took up the sport, News 5 reported.
"He brightened a room when he came in and it's that kind of spirit you can't replace," Kreuter's father said.
Kreuter died along with four other local Marines, Lance Cpl. Michael Joseph Cifuentes, Lance Cpl. Christopher Dyer, Lance Cpl. Brett Wightman and Lance Cpl. Timothy Michael Bell Jr.
The five were members of Lima Company, based in Columbus, and the Cleveland-based battalion involved in the single deadliest roadside bombing of U.S. troops in Iraq.
St. Xavier officials said Kreuter and Cifuentes, also a St. Xavier graduate, were men of service to others and they incorporated the vision of the school into their lives in that way.
"(They were) so young, so promising, so full of life. This is real," said the Rev. William Deye, president of St. Xavier High School.
Fourteen Marines were killed in the bombing, most of them from a Columbus-based company that also suffered multiple casualties just months ago. The losses came two days after the same reservist battalion lost six other members in the fighting.
Nine of the reservists killed Wednesday were members of Lima Company, which lost four Marines in another attack in May, said Master Sgt. Stephen Walter, the company's public affairs officer.
All 14 were members of 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, based in Brook Park, the blue-collar Cleveland suburb of 21,000, according to Gunnery Sgt. Brad R. Lauer, public affairs chief. The battalion was activated in January and went to Iraq in March
www.channelcincinnati.com/news/4811266/detail.html
Mom Had Gut Feeling Day Of Bombing
POSTED: 5:31 pm EDT August 4, 2005
UPDATED: 8:26 pm EDT August 4, 2005
CINCINNATI -- Lance Cpl. David Kreuter, 26, never got to meet his 7-week-old son.
News 5 learned that Kreuter was one of five Tri-state Marines killed in the roadside bombing that claimed 14 Marines Wednesday.
Kreuter, a graduate of St. Xavier High School and the University of Cincinnati, had been in Iraq since March. His son, Christian, was born in June. Kreuter and his wife, Chrystina, married last fall, News 5's Brian Hamrick reported.
"He was going to be a really good husband and a good father," said Pat Murray, Kreuter's mother. "I feel really badly that his wife got to know him (for) such a short time period (and) that his son will never know him. That bothers me a lot."
Kreuter majored in criminal justice at UC, but he wanted to make the Marine Corps his career and planned to go to Officers' Training School, his family said.
Relatives said Kreuter liked every part of being a Marine -- from the uniform to working the most dangerous missions in the most dangerous part of the world.
"He wanted to be the best. He wanted to do the hardest thing possible," Kreuter's father, Ken, said. "(As) near as we can tell, he was involved in just about every major mission or event over there."
Kreuter's mother said she woke up Wednesday knowing something was wrong. When she learned Marines had been killed in Iraq, she said she knew instantly.
"They told me it was a soldier in this area and I knew. I knew right then," Murray said.
Kreuter also left behind two sisters who were so inspired by his running ability, that they also took up the sport, News 5 reported.
"He brightened a room when he came in and it's that kind of spirit you can't replace," Kreuter's father said.
Kreuter died along with four other local Marines, Lance Cpl. Michael Joseph Cifuentes, Lance Cpl. Christopher Dyer, Lance Cpl. Brett Wightman and Lance Cpl. Timothy Michael Bell Jr.
The five were members of Lima Company, based in Columbus, and the Cleveland-based battalion involved in the single deadliest roadside bombing of U.S. troops in Iraq.
St. Xavier officials said Kreuter and Cifuentes, also a St. Xavier graduate, were men of service to others and they incorporated the vision of the school into their lives in that way.
"(They were) so young, so promising, so full of life. This is real," said the Rev. William Deye, president of St. Xavier High School.
Fourteen Marines were killed in the bombing, most of them from a Columbus-based company that also suffered multiple casualties just months ago. The losses came two days after the same reservist battalion lost six other members in the fighting.
Nine of the reservists killed Wednesday were members of Lima Company, which lost four Marines in another attack in May, said Master Sgt. Stephen Walter, the company's public affairs officer.
All 14 were members of 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, based in Brook Park, the blue-collar Cleveland suburb of 21,000, according to Gunnery Sgt. Brad R. Lauer, public affairs chief. The battalion was activated in January and went to Iraq in March
www.channelcincinnati.com/news/4811266/detail.html
