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  • Jersey family watched a quiet boy grow [Cpl. Michael E. Curtin]

    04/28/2003 6:48:57 AM PDT · by Incorrigible · 1 replies · 410+ views
    Newark Star Ledger ^ | 4/27/03 | TOM FEENEY
    Jersey family watched a quiet boy grow Sunday, April 27, 2003 BY TOM FEENEY Star-Ledger Staff [Howell Township, NJ] -- Army Cpl. Michael E. Curtin lived most of his life just off Route 9, in a black-shuttered Colonial on a cul-de-sac in Howell. He shared a bedroom with his younger brother Danny until the day he left for basic training.He died on Highway 9 in Iraq on a sunny Saturday morning last month when a suicide bomber in a taxicab pulled up to the roadblock where he stood guard. He was the first New Jersey soldier killed in the war....