06.28.06
Local Marine Dies in Iraq…Was Recruiter in “911″ Film…
U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Raymond J. Plouhar, 30, of Lake Orion was killed in combat Monday by an improvised explosive device, or IED, in the Anbar province of Iraq, according to the Department of Defense.
He was a platoon leader assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, First Marine Expeditionary Force based at Camp Pendleton, Calif. His job was tracking, then detonating, IEDs, his family said Tuesday.
His mother, Cindy Plouhar, 51, said her son was scheduled to return home at the end of July. He was deployed to Iraq with his unit in January for his second tour. His work as a Marine recruiter in Michigan was featured in Michael Moore’s film “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
His appearance generated buzz when Marine Corps officials accused Moore’s production company of duping the recruiting unit into cooperating. In the film, he is shown recruiting at a Flint mall, saying, “It’s better to get them when they’re in ones and twos, and work on them that way.”
Thanks to the lies of the President, two more boys have no father…