Sgt. Martin of Delmar, NY., grew up in Delmar and graduated from Bethlehem High School in 1995. He had been a member of the Elsmere Fire Department before moving out of the area. He had been going to the Fire Company ever since he could walk. He was just a little boy climbing all over the trucks when his father, longtime Elsmere firefighter Paul Martin, brought him to the station. In 1995 he joined the volunteer fire company. And for five years after high school, he wore the same helmet as his father at Elsmere. In one year in particular, 1999, Shawn went out on nearly 40 fire calls, where his colleagues learned a lot about his character. Shawn approached firefighting with the same energetic enthusiasm he did in life. He pushed people out of the way so he could be first inside the burning building. He stayed with the Elsmere Fire Company for five years and worked local jobs until he joined the Marine Corps in 2000 and traveled the world. He went to Italy, Hungary, Cuba and Spain. Somewhere in there, in November 2002, he found the time to marry his longtime sweetheart, Marianne. By the time he got the call to go to Iraq, the two had settled in California. He died when the vehicle he was riding in was hit by a road-side bomb. He was 30.
Marines
Combat Logistics Battalion 13
13th Marine Expeditionary Unit
I Marine Expeditionary Force
Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Marines
Combat Logistics Battalion 13
13th Marine Expeditionary Unit
I Marine Expeditionary Force
Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Sgt. Martin of Delmar, NY., grew up in Delmar and graduated from Bethlehem High School in 1995. He had been a member of the Elsmere Fire Department before moving out of the area. He had been going to the Fire Company ever since he could walk. He was just a little boy climbing all over the trucks when his father, longtime Elsmere firefighter Paul Martin, brought him to the station. In 1995 he joined the volunteer fire company. And for five years after high school, he wore the same helmet as his father at Elsmere. In one year in particular, 1999, Shawn went out on nearly 40 fire calls, where his colleagues learned a lot about his character. Shawn approached firefighting with the same energetic enthusiasm he did in life. He pushed people out of the way so he could be first inside the burning building. He stayed with the Elsmere Fire Company for five years and worked local jobs until he joined the Marine Corps in 2000 and traveled the world. He went to Italy, Hungary, Cuba and Spain. Somewhere in there, in November 2002, he found the time to marry his longtime sweetheart, Marianne. By the time he got the call to go to Iraq, the two had settled in California. He died when the vehicle he was riding in was hit by a road-side bomb. He was 30.
Marines
Combat Logistics Battalion 13
13th Marine Expeditionary Unit
I Marine Expeditionary Force
Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Marines
Combat Logistics Battalion 13
13th Marine Expeditionary Unit
I Marine Expeditionary Force
Camp Pendleton, Calif.
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Shawn P Martin
SGT
US Marine Corpa
Iraq
FEB 9 1977
June 20 2007
KIA
Bronze Star
Purple Heart
Always Loved
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