Semper Fi!
10 Days to Forever The serious business of preparing for war can be more dangerous than war itself.
The Post’s Petula Dvorak writes about a young Marine and the love of his life:
Before he left on a 10-day training maneuver earlier this month, he called his mom to tell her the engagement ring was almost ready.
It had Grandma’s diamonds. And Marine 1st Lt. Hugh Conor McDowell designed it himself. He’d propose as soon as he returned, he confided. But he never got the chance.
Conor, 24, had asked Kathleen Isabel Rose Bourque to move across the country only four days after they met for the first time, face-to-face.
They had met through a dating app, reports Ms. Dvorak, where the young man made an immediate impression on Ms. Bourque:
She liked that Conor’s profile picture was a sweet mother-son shot of him taken during the ring ceremony at The Citadel.
“Who does that? Include his mother?” she said.
Tragically, days before his planned proposal, 1st Lt. McDowell was killed when his light armored reconnaissance vehicle rolled over during an exercise on a hazy morning at California’s Camp Pendleton. He was able to save a fellow Marine by pushing him to safety. But McDowell could not save himself.
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