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Mark Adams

    
Tuesday, October 18 2005 @ 07:54 AM MDT
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Individuals USWRAL.COM -- MORRISVILLE, N.C. -- Before there were tears, there was plenty of laughter in 24-year-old Marine Sgt. Mark Adams' family.

"He was the typical life-of-the-party guy," Marshall Adams recalled of his brother.

A member of the Marine Forces Reserve's II Marine Expeditionary Force Augmentation Command Element from Camp Lejeune, Sgt. Adams died Saturday after a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle in Saqlawiyah, Iraq. He was standing in the machine gun turret of the armored Humvee, the only position on the truck that was exposed. No one else on the vehicle was hurt.

Those who knew Sgt. Adams best said his journey as a man started on the Cary High School wrestling team and led him to the heart of one of the most dangerous places on earth.

He first joined the Marines after he graduated in 1999. After his enlistment ran out, he returned home and was helping coach his high school’s wrestling team when his parents said he felt compelled to re-enlist because he wanted to fight terrorism.

His father, Phillip Adams, remembered the conversation he had with his son when he chose to go back to the Marines.

"He told me, 'You’re either going to fight the terrorists over here or over there,'" Phillip Adams said. "As a parent, my reaction is, 'Son, you can get killed over there.' He told me, 'Daddy, that's war.'"

One of the last things Rene Adams said she told her son was that God was in control.

"If it's not your time to go, then you'll be back," she told him. "And if it is, I know God's in control."

Control was something Sgt. Adams relied on, but in the end, it was something he could not control that ended his life -- a roadside bomb. That was the one thing that his brothers, who also served in the military, feared most for their brother.

As for Phillip Adams', his son's fate is a source of both pride and pain.

"I am so thankful -- I've never experienced anything like this," he said. "(I) never thought I could hurt as bad as I'm hurting, but I've never been as proud -- not only of Mark, but of every one of those Marines and Army and Navy and Air Force -- every one of them."

The 38th soldier from North Carolina to die in Iraq, Sgt. Adams will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
 
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Mark Adams
Authored by: anonymous on Tuesday, October 18 2005 @ 10:38 AM MDT
I served with Mark in 3/8 for about a year. He was a good man and a good Marine. I feel privilaged to have known him. My heartfelt condolences go out to his friends and family.
  • to Mark - Authored by: anonymous on Wednesday, October 19 2005 @ 10:26 AM MDT
Mark Adams
Authored by: anonymous on Thursday, October 20 2005 @ 07:29 AM MDT
Another family added to my daily thoughts. I wish you all the streghth that will be needed to handle this loss. Try always remember your son's choices. It will be hard. They will be easily swaded. Do not do it. LOVE HIM ALWAYS for who is was.... I am sure you will.
Rhonda
Mark Adams
Authored by: anonymous on Thursday, October 20 2005 @ 05:12 PM MDT
Mark,
I would like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice for our Country. And to your family, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy.

Semper Fi Devil Dog!
Mark Adams
Authored by: anonymous on Saturday, October 22 2005 @ 06:54 PM MDT
May God surround His angels around the family of Mark Adams and give them peace. What a fine young man.
Mark Adams
Authored by: anonymous on Saturday, October 22 2005 @ 09:18 PM MDT
Mark, you were an angel on earth and now you are in heaven. You are the most courageous man that I've ever met. I feel so grateful to have shared the times we did together. I miss you dearly, however, I am so proud of you for fighting for what you belived in. I'm praying for your family that they find the strength to deal with losing one of the greatest individuals I know. You are my hero and forever will be. Love you always, Lauren
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