Jewish marine killed in Iraqi combat (First Jewish casualty of war)

Jerusalem Post ^ | Apr. 10, 2003 | Abigail Radoszkowicz

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Apr. 10, 2003

Jewish marine killed in Iraqi combat

By ABIGAIL RADOSZKOWICZ

Marine sniper scout Mark Evnin, 21, became the first known Jewish fatality of the Iraq war when he was shot in the stomach during a firefight in the town of Kut by Iraqi machine-gun fire on April 3.

San Francisco Chronicle reporter John Koopman, who rode with Evnin, reported that Evnin's role was to spot Iraqi snipers and to drive a sharpshooter, a sergeant major, and the journalist as they headed toward Baghdad.

Evnin was hit while shooting back after the convoy come under fire. His wounds at first did not appear life-threatening, and Koopman recalled joking with him about sponge baths from the nurses. But Evnin died while being evacuated by helicopter.

The extended family began to sit shiva in his hometown of Burlington, Vermont, even before the body was returned from Iraq.

Evnin "had always been interested in the military, even when he was a young child," his maternal grandfather, Rabbi Maz Wall, 87, recalled in a Jewish Telegraph Agency report.

Mark "always would say that his zayde was the chief rabbi of Vermont," his mother Mindy Evnin said. Evnin had his bar mitzva at the Conservative synagogue his grandfather led.

Rabbi Joshua Chasan, who currently leads Ohavi Zedek, recalled that Evnin attended Hebrew school in US Army fatigues.

"There's no doubt about it, Mark did it his own way. Vermont is a pretty liberal community, and this kid went into the Marine Corps."

Evnin's parents separated when he was six years old, and his father, Michael, lives in Rockville, Maryland.

"He was my only child. I'll never be a grandmother," his mother told a Newsday reporter from her home in South Burlington.

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""He was my only child. I'll never be a grandmother," his mother told a Newsday reporter from her home in South Burlington."

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