Marine Cpl. Mick R. Bekowsky, 21, of Concord, Calif.; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.; killed Sept. 6 due to enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq. A world away from his little sister, Mick sounded tired and homesick in calls home from Iraq, but he always asked Haley, 12, how her softball team was doing. "They were eight years apart and had two different lives," "They both thought they'd have plenty of time to be brother and sister." The Marine liked to race cars, hunt and fish. He enlisted a month after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, shortly after graduating from high school. He was killed weeks before he was due to return home. "He was the boy next door, the boy you went to high school with, the guy who works at McDonald's," the Marine's father said. "We picture them as soldiers carrying M-16s, but they're boys." He is survived by his parents, Brian and Joan Bekowsky; sister Haley Bekowsky; grandparents Adonna and Fred Dull and Cecile Bekowsky; five aunts, five uncles and 13 first cousins.
Marine Cpl. Mick R. Bekowsky, 21, of Concord, Calif.; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.; killed Sept. 6 due to enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq. A world away from his little sister, Mick sounded tired and homesick in calls home from Iraq, but he always asked Haley, 12, how her softball team was doing. "They were eight years apart and had two different lives," "They both thought they'd have plenty of time to be brother and sister." The Marine liked to race cars, hunt and fish. He enlisted a month after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, shortly after graduating from high school. He was killed weeks before he was due to return home. "He was the boy next door, the boy you went to high school with, the guy who works at McDonald's," the Marine's father said. "We picture them as soldiers carrying M-16s, but they're boys." He is survived by his parents, Brian and Joan Bekowsky; sister Haley Bekowsky; grandparents Adonna and Fred Dull and Cecile Bekowsky; five aunts, five uncles and 13 first cousins.
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