posted August 19, 2006 01:22 PM              

NEW YORK -- Two more Marines from New York have died in combat in Iraq, including the nephew of a city fire chief who led Sept. 11 rescue efforts.

Lance Cpl. Michael Glover, 28, and Capt. John J. McKenna IV, 30, were each shot in the head on Wednesday while together on foot patrol in the volatile Anbar province, the Pentagon said.

For Glover, the tie between the war in Iraq and the terror attack on the World Trade Center ran in the family.

His uncle, former FDNY Chief Peter Hayden, oversaw operations at the trade center's north tower on Sept. 11, 2001. Hayden retired last month.

The attack also took the life of one of Glover's best friends, Charles Heeran, 23, an equities trader for Cantor Fitzgerald.

Glover joined the Marines in March 2004, inspired by the firefighters killed on Sept. 11.

"He said to me that he had seen the sacrifice that the firefighters had given that day and he wanted to do something for his country," Hayden told Newsday.

McKenna, of Brooklyn, joined the Marines in 1998 after graduating from upstate Binghamton University, where he studied history. He had grown up in Brooklyn's Windsor Terrace neighborhood, graduating from Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School.

Before going to Iraq, McKenna was a New York state trooper.

Glover attended Xavier High School in Manhattan and studied business at the State University of New York at Albany. He interrupted his law studies at Manhattan's Pace University to join the Marines.

Both men were fighting as reservists with the 25th Marine Regiment's 1st Battalion, based in Albany. Glover was a rifleman, and McKenna an infantry officer.

The two Marines, along with their unit, were scheduled to return from their Iraq tour in October.

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Well let's look at time...there's already been a start of a ceasefire and potential end the the Israeli/Lebanon fighting and nonstop Hezbollah rocekts destroying cities and lives...but will their ever be an end to sending our beloved troops to these *foreign* places. Tell me your thoughts on Bush's Policies of this war and do you approve or dislike the governments ways administering war?

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