Marine’s pregnant wife shot while he was in Iraq
Posted on November 21st, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Julia Cook, her husband Lance Cpl. Justin Cook, and all of those affected by this senseless random act of violence.
YORK, Pennsylvania (AP)—A Marine serving in a war zone in Iraq rushed back home to be with his pregnant wife Friday after she was wounded in an apparent random shooting in a supermarket parking lot.
“You can only imagine how it would make me feel, being where I was at,” Lance Cpl. Justin Cook, 23, said.
The Marine was pulled from his combat unit in Falluja on Monday, and told his wife Julia, 21, had been shot in the head. She is due to deliver the couple’s son in February.
Justin Cook said his mind raced at the news—“a whole whirlwind of emotions, from anger (to) fear.”
After three sleepless nights of travel, the Marine was at his wife’s bedside Friday in the York Hospital intensive-care unit, where a nursing supervisor said she was in serious condition.
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