Army Sgt. Maurice Keith Fortune, 25, of Forestville, Md.; assigned to the Army’s 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, from Camp Hovey, Korea; killed Oct. 29 when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle in Ramadi, Iraq.
A FAMILY WITH A MILITARY TRADITION
Maurice Keith Fortune came from a family with a military tradition dating to World War I. "All the boys were in the military," said his uncle, Maurice P. Fortune. "My grandfather was in the first world war, and we had three uncles in the second world war."
"He was just a young man from a poor family reaching out to (improve) his condition and he chose the way that he wanted to do it by entering the service," said his father, Littleton Fortune, who made a career of the Air Force and then retired to live in the Philippines. Fortune is survived by his wife and an infant daughter.
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