Thursday, November 16, 2006

"MARINES DON'T GET KILLED IN IRAQ. I CAN LOOK AFTER MYSELF...I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING"

The brave and supremely confident words of Corporal Ben Novak, a 27 year old Oz-Brit (dual citizenship). He was a Royal Marine and he died in Southern Iraq last Sunday, along with three other Royal Marines on the Shatt al-Arab waterway outside of Basra.

Corporal Novak had been in Iraq for just one week.

His mother said Ben was "so proud to be a Royal Marine. He would wear that uniform whenever he could."