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Article: Remembering a Marine who'd always 'step up'.(Travis Manion)
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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Byline: Larry King and Tom Infield
May 1--Travis Manion, 26, a Marine who grew up in Bucks County, became a three-sport star at La Salle College High School, and was serving his second tour in Iraq, was killed Sunday near Fallujah.
His father said Manion died in an afternoon sniper attack. A first lieutenant in a reconnaissance battalion, Manion was embedded with Iraqis, helping to prepare them for assuming full defense of their nation.
"He was always a kid who would step up, no matter what he was doing," Thomas Manion, a colonel in the Marine reserves, said yesterday. "He was working so that the Americans could pull out and let the Iraqis take ...