Lee, Bum Rok
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Verified In AL ANBAR PROVINCE, IRAQ on June 2, 2004, the MARINE CORPS lost CPL Lee, Bum Rok of SUNNYVALE, CA, 21, serving with E CO, 2D BN, 4TH MAR, 1ST MARDIV, CAMP PENDLETON, CA. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Lee, Bum Rok was 21 and from SUNNYVALE, CA when he joined the Active Duty, MARINE CORPS, E CO, 2D BN, 4TH MAR, 1ST MARDIV, CAMP PENDLETON, CA as CPL. Operation Iraqi Freedom would take his life.
He did not survive OIF. The MARINE CORPS recorded his death on June 2, 2004 in AL ANBAR PROVINCE, IRAQ, from HOSTILE.
Operation Iraqi Freedom began March 19, 2003 with the US-led invasion. The stated justification ? weapons of mass destruction ? was never found. Seven years of occupation, insurgency, and sectarian war followed, killing 4,418 Americans and an estimated 200,000 Iraqi civilians.
The MARINE CORPS classified his death as "HOSTILE" ? a category that matters to the families who must make sense of it. His name is documented in the Defense Casualty Analysis System at https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/conflictCasualties/oif.
Explore Further
Lee, Bum Rok was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom (from March 2003 to August 2010). The conflict concluded in August 2010. See the full roster of those killed in this conflict.
Among those documented in the same conflict: Kennedy, Brian Matthew, Beaupre, Ryan Anthony, Gutierrez, Jose, Waters-bey, Kendall Damon.
