Since the war with Iran started on Feb. 28, seven American service members have been killed, including a Minnesota mother of two, an Iowa college student and a Florida native remembered by his family as the “life of the party.”
Five of the fallen service members, all members of a U.S. Army Reserve unit based in Des Moines, Iowa, were positively identified as of Wednesday, March 4. The Pentagon also announced that Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert M. Marzan, 54, of Sacramento, California, “is believed to be” the sixth soldier who “perished at the scene” in Kuwait, and that positive identification will be done by a medical examiner.
They were returned to the U.S. on Saturday, March 7, in a dignified transfer attended by President Trump and other officials…