LCpl. Adam Brooks

(reprinted from tTheUnionLeader, January 2, 2005)

When duty called they answered:

Adam R. Brooks, LCPL, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, based at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Age 20. Manchester. Killed in Babil province, Iraq, in November 2004, six months to the day he was married to his wife, Ashley. He was a Central High School graduate who enlisted after his graduation in 2003. He was on patrol in Baghdad when a bomb exploded near his Humvee. He died shortly afterward from injuries suffered while trying to escape from the vehicle. He had wanted to be a state trooper one day. “He tried to do the best he could, at everything he did,” his mother, Rose Marois, said.