26, of Doylestown, Pa.; assigned to 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.; died April 29 while conducting combat operations in Anbar province, Iraq.<\/p>\n
Doylestown Marine killed in combat in Iraq<\/p>\n
The Associated Press<\/p>\n
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. \u2014 A Marine officer from Doylestown who was killed in combat in Iraq was a dedicated supporter of the troops\u2019 mission, his family said April 30.<\/p>\n
First Lt. Travis L. Manion, 26, died April 29 in combat in Anbar province. He was serving his second tour in Iraq, embedded with an Iraqi army unit that he was leading and training.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was so sure what he was doing over there was right,\u201d said his mother, Jannette Manion. \u201cHe called the night Bush made his speech about the troop surge and told us, \u2018That\u2019s exactly what we need.\u2019 His biggest concern was that the politicians over here were giving life to the insurgents by putting the military and president down.\u201d<\/p>\n
His father, Tom Manion, said he was proud of how his son would \u201cgive his all\u201d in life and in the military.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a kid with a big heart, never had a bad word for anyone. He was all heart; that is who he was,\u201d Tom Manion said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had calls from all over the country, from people who said they loved him like a brother; he really touched people like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Marine 1st Lt. Travis L. Manion Died April 29, 2007 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom 26, of Doylestown, Pa.; assigned to 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.; died April 29 while conducting combat operations in Anbar province, Iraq. Doylestown Marine killed in combat in Iraq The Associated Press […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017honorees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}