Ziolkowski, Nicholas Lee
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Verified On November 14, 2004, the MARINE CORPS lost CPL Ziolkowski, Nicholas Lee of TOWSON, MD in FALLUJAH, IRAQ. He was 22. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
A Active Duty member of the MARINE CORPS ? B CO, 1ST BN, 8TH MAR, (RCT-7, 1ST MAR DIV), 2D MAR DIV, CAMP LEJEUNE, NC ? serving as CPL, Ziolkowski, Nicholas Lee was 22 and came from TOWSON, MD.
He did not survive OIF. The MARINE CORPS recorded his death on November 14, 2004 in FALLUJAH, 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
Ziolkowski, Nicholas Lee 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.
