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Mark D. Taylor

Mark D. Taylor

Died: March 20, 2004

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel

Unit: 782nd Main Support Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division

Branch: U.S. Army

Lieutenant Colonel Mark D. Taylor died from wounds received during a rocket attack on March 20, 2004, in Fallujah, Iraq, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. As a phy­sician assigned to a forward surgical team of the 782nd Main Support Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division, he was retrieving wounded Soldiers near his base when the attack occurred. Mark was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.

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