Article: Six weeks took his life: Marine who grew up on Long Island dies in Iraq only a short while after being deployed.

Byline: Joseph Mallia

May 16--Their son had been in Iraq for only six weeks when Gregory and Carol LiCalzi found out that two Marines were waiting at their front door.

As they raced home from the airport on Friday, they prayed that their son Michael, a Marine 2nd lieutenant and 2000 graduate of Chaminade High School, had only been wounded. They prayed that he was still alive.

"Can you believe that we were praying that our son had been grievously wounded? That would mean these two Marines, a gunnery sergeant and a captain, weren't there to tell us Michael was dead," his father said. "He was just 24 years old and he was a really good kid."

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