James L Moore

James Lee Moore

Roseburg, Oregon

January 26, 2005

Age

Military

Rank

Unit/Location

Marine

Cpl

1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force

Marine Corps Base Hawaii

Died when the CH-53E helicopter they were in crashed near Ar Rutbah, Iraq.

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February 3, 2005

Remembering Cpl Moore, Click photo below

January 26, 2010

Cpl James Lee Moore, USMC
Feb 3, 1980 - Jan 26, 2005
stationed out of Kanehoe Bay, HI
James was just one of 31 fellow marines and sailors traveling into Rutbah, Iraq
to provide security for the Iraqi citizens to participate safely in their
first election following the battle of Fallujah - through which these young
Marines fought valiantly in what would come to be known as the fiercest urban-
style fighting ever seen by our modern day military. The CH53 they were riding
took off first of three similar troop transports under the cover of darkness
and almost immediately was in a sandstorm and the ensuing battle between chopper and desert was over as quickly as it had began. No survivors. James last
request to his immediate family was expressed in a final letter to his step-
mother dated just a few days before his death and directly regarding a fresh
outlook and insight he had gained along with a newly founded maturity that he
obviously discovered while finding within himself the strengths of leadership,
salvation, and motivating fellow Marines to survive and find strength within
themselves to see the task at hand as an opportunity to place their profound
bootprint on the map of history and to change the face of an entire country as
he learned to recognize and respect and honor the greatest gift our freedoms
allow.

The priceless gift of "family loving family" - all of those who have
gone on before us and especially those who will follow long after we are gone.
"Family" is the firm foundation our country and our aspirations, dreams,and
hopes have steadily relied on as a model to organize and prioritize in the found-
ing of this great nation and in assisting the oppressed of other nations to define
their own futures based on the value placed on family.