Lake Orion Marine (featured in Fahrenheit 9/11) Killed By IED In Iraq

Oakland County
Lake Orion Marine is killed in Iraq explosion
June 28, 2006

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."

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What hell, to go from recruiting duty, which is a shit job, to Iraq for two rotations, an even shittier job.

Poor kid. Poor family. This war sucks.

just so he could come home for his parents who both died from cancer. I will never forget his face, nor his family's pain. He actually my girlfriend's cousin.

:(

I'm so sorry for his mother, wife, and two boys.

I remember him from the film--who doesn't?

Rest in peace, Staff Sgt. Raymond J. Plouhar.

http://www.marines.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/lookupstoryref/2001321211228
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-- As a highly skilled marksman, he is trained to make split-second decisions in life and death situations. Likewise, he did not hesitate to react when he received the news of a family member in distress..

Second Marine Division's Sgt. Raymond J. Plouhar decided to give the gift of life - - in the form of one of his kidneys - - to his uncle, Tim Kennedy.

The sergeant from Surveillance, Target and Acquisition Platoon, Weapons Company, 2d Battalion, 2d Marine Regiment, was home on leave for Easter 1998, when his mother told him of his uncle's hospitalization.

Kennedy, a husband and father of two girls, was diagnosed with renal kidney failure, a potentially life-ending disease that required an organ transplant, according to Plouhar.