Remembering Our Local Fallen Heroes Thread

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I'm not even going to get in to this argument. I’ll just say I support are troops and what they are trying to do.


IRVINE – Mark J. Daily's last e-mail to his family was brief.

"All is well," he wrote. "More war stories than I can fit in this e-mail. Having the time of my life!"

The 23-year-old was killed Monday when a bomb ripped through his military vehicle in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, officials said Wednesday.

Daily had been in Iraq for only three months.

Family and friends of the lifelong Irvine resident took some solace in his final message.

"He sincerely believed in what he was doing and wanted to finish the job and come home," Mark's father, John F. Daily, said in brief comments outside his home Wednesday.