Cpl. Larry Harris Jr., 24, had just finished a tough, four-hour day of firefighting in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
The next day, he found himself in another fight against the Taliban, along with his fellow Marines from the India Company, Third Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment.
“From what I know, he had been in a gunfight for quite a few hours,” Stacia Harris, Larry Harris’ widow, said. “One of his junior Marines had been shot and wounded. He had picked him up and carried him away, when he tripped on the I.E.D.”
That I.E.D. took Cpl. Harris’ life. Three others injured in the blast lived; including the Marine shot and wounded, Lance Cpl. Jake Henry.
A family prayer service for Harris will take place at 6 p.m. Wednesday at King Baptist Church, 3370 Ivy Street in Denver. Funeral services are planned for next Wednesday.
Read more about Harris, including recollections of members of his Boulder hip-hop group, at .
