Injured Marine's parents fight to get other son home from Iraq (11/17/04)

Injured Marine's parents fight to get other son home from Iraq

By the Associated Press
BETHESDA, Md. — The parents of two Marines from Connecticut are fighting to get their youngest son out of Iraq after his brother was seriously injured in the assault on Fallujah.

Brian Johnston, 24, lost his right arm and most of his right leg in an explosion on Nov. 9, the second day of the effort to take Fallujah from insurgents. His younger brother, Kevin, 20, remains in Fallujah with a different Marine unit, his parents said.

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