Lance Cpl. George J. Payton of Culver City, California was sent to live with relatives in Fiji during high school because his mother worried about the influence of gangs in their Los Angeles neighborhood. A year later, he returned focused and mature, joining the Marines in 2002. He was becoming the kind of man his mother wanted him to be. Payton lived in Culver City, attending school and helping his mother care for his three younger brothers. He was near the end of his second tour in Iraq. In one of his last letters home, he told his mother not to send any more care packages. He wrote that he had a strange feeling that something would happen to him, that he'd probably come home before December. In addition to his mother, Payton is survived by three brothers. He died as result of enemy action in Al Anbar province, Iraq at age 20.
Marines
3rd Battalion
5th Marine Regiment
1st Marine Division
I Marine Expeditionary Force
Camp Pendleton, Calif
Marines
3rd Battalion
5th Marine Regiment
1st Marine Division
I Marine Expeditionary Force
Camp Pendleton, Calif
Lance Cpl. George J. Payton of Culver City, California was sent to live with relatives in Fiji during high school because his mother worried about the influence of gangs in their Los Angeles neighborhood. A year later, he returned focused and mature, joining the Marines in 2002. He was becoming the kind of man his mother wanted him to be. Payton lived in Culver City, attending school and helping his mother care for his three younger brothers. He was near the end of his second tour in Iraq. In one of his last letters home, he told his mother not to send any more care packages. He wrote that he had a strange feeling that something would happen to him, that he'd probably come home before December. In addition to his mother, Payton is survived by three brothers. He died as result of enemy action in Al Anbar province, Iraq at age 20.
Marines
3rd Battalion
5th Marine Regiment
1st Marine Division
I Marine Expeditionary Force
Camp Pendleton, Calif
Marines
3rd Battalion
5th Marine Regiment
1st Marine Division
I Marine Expeditionary Force
Camp Pendleton, Calif
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