UNION CITY, Mich. (AP) - A U-S marine and former athlete at Union City High School has been killed in Iraq, school officials say.
Twenty-year-old Craig Watson graduated in 2003. Superintendent Martin Chard says he died yesterday.
Chard says a family member told him Watson was killed by a roadside bomb made from several large artillery shells.
Watson was an All Conference football player and a wrestler at the school.
He's survived by parents, Jay and Shirley Watson, and twin brothers who graduated in 2004.
Watson is the 71st member of the U-S armed forces with known Michigan ties to die supporting military operations in Iraq.
It was not immediately clear whether he was among the ten Marines killed yesterday in a Fallujah explosion, which also wounded eleven.
AP
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