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Future held promise for slain soldier

Apr-22-2004 » Filed Under: Iraq News

As always, thoughts and prayers for the family and friends he leaves behind.

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By JOHN RICHARDSON, Portland Press Herald Writer

Christopher D. Gelineau was one semester away from earning his college degree and starting a promising career and a new life with his wife, a fellow student at the University of Southern Maine.

But his strong sense of responsibility would first lead the bright 23-year-old student to Iraq, where he was fatally wounded Tuesday morning in an ambush on a military convoy in Mosul.

Gelineau was a specialist in the 133rd Engineer Battalion of the Maine Army National Guard. He was riding in the first of four Humvees on the western edge of the city when an explosive device detonated in the center of the road and anti-American insurgents opened fire on his convoy. The explosion killed Gelineau.

Four others, three from Maine and one from a South Carolina unit attached to the 133rd, were injured in the attack.

Gelineau's death has devastated his young wife and his parents, who lost their only child, an uncle said. Relatives gathered at his Portland apartment Wednesday, while members of other military families offered support and directed all questions about Gelineau to the Maine National Guard.


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