Reply #25: 3 other Marines died the day he was wounded --one from Waukesha. [View All]

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...Three other Marines with him — Lance Cpl. Shane O'Donnell, 24, of DeForest, Lance Cpl. Branden Ramey, 22, of Belvidere, Ill., and Cpl. Robert Warns, 23, of Waukesha — died at the scene, Williams said.

So far, 43 soldiers or Marines from Wisconsin have been killed in Iraq. At least 1,826 members of the U.S. military have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Simon enlisted in the Marines in 1989, several months before graduating from LaFollette High School in Madison in 1990, the family said in an obituary released by Gunderson Funeral Home. He was a platoon commander and marksmanship instructor.