Perspective: A Marine’s crazy, four-day courtship, and the ring he’ll never get to deliver
Conor McDowell and Kathleen Bourque at a friend’s wedding in September 2018. By Petula Dvorak Petula Dvorak Local columnist Email Bio Follow Columnist May 23 at 2:01 PM Before he left on a 10-day training maneuver earlier this month, he called his mom to tell her the engagement ring was almost ready.
She liked that Conor’s profile picture was a sweet mother-son shot of him taken during the ring ceremony at The Citadel. She learned about the sign language he picked up hanging out with his mom, Susan Flanigan, during some of her 26 years working at Gallaudet University, the French he spoke during his summers in a village in Burgundy, his drumming, his recipe for the perfect blueberry pancake.
“I saw him. And that was just it. I just knew, every fiber in my being told me that was it. He was the one,” she said. Kathleen and Conor on the beach in San Diego. Kathleen and Ruthie hated it when Conor went on his training operations. He wasn’t on foreign soil or facing enemy gunfire. But she knew those training exercises were dangerous.Starting in 2015, training deaths have been outpacing combat deaths every year. In 2017, the ratio was 4 to 1, according to a report by the House Armed Services Committee.On May 9, Conor was in the turret of a light armored reconnaissance vehicle with six other Marines.
“Conor saved the gunner in the twin turret on his left, quickly pushing the corporal down into the safety of the heavy armor, but it was too late to save his own life,” his father said.
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