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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