He was killed in Baghdad in 2007. A friend remembers him: Losing a great combat officer is particularly painful. It is not because an officer’s life is worth anymore than an enlisted man’s, far from ...

ZEMBIEC, DOUGLAS A. Major USMC On Tursday, May 10, 2007 Maj. Douglas A. Zembiec, USMC died in Iraq. Beloved husband of Pamela and father of Fallyn Justice Zembiec. He is also survived by his parents ...

There's a YouTube video of Defense Secretary Robert Gates fighting back tears when he talks about a Marine who was called "The Lion of Fallujah." Gates tells the story of how Maj. Doug Zembiec's ...

Then-Capt. Doug Zembiec gives orders to his men over a radio prior to leaving their secured compound for a short patrol in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. (AP/U.S. Marine Corps. via The Albuquerque Journal, ...

Iwasn’t surprised when I heard that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates had nearly broken into tears talking about the life and death of Marine Maj. Douglas Zembiec. A lot of us who knew Zembiec felt ...

A remarkable young Marine officer named Maj. Douglas A. Zembiec was killed in action on May 11, 2007, during his fourth tour in Iraq. What makes his story so compelling is not the fact that he was ...

From a 2007 Washington Post article about the memorial service at the Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis, Md., for Marine Maj. Douglas A. Zembiec. Known as the "Lion of Fallujah" for his heroism in ...

WASHINGTON -- In the foyer of the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters in Langley, Va., there is a marble wall covered in stars. They are carved divots that represent those who have fallen in ...

JOINT BASE MYER-HENDERSON HALL, Va. - A handful of U.S. Marines have been training this week to become certified lifeguards at Maj. Douglas A. Zembiec Pool on the Henderson Hall side of Joint Base ...

I thank my mom for sending the picture, then ask her to look for another memorial, this one to Maj. Doug Zembiec, another classmate, the “Lion of Fallujah,” so nicknamed for his heroism in that battle ...