Marine LCPL Jeremy Shock

November 19th, 2006

Tiffin, Ohio

Iraqi Freedom

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Associated Press

Lacy Cherry remembers the first time she met Jeremy S. Shock a few days after moving in at Tiffin University. The 6-foot-2, 200-pound football player “was just going around to the dorms introducing himself to everybody,” Cherry recalled. “Ever since then we have been really, really close.” Shock, 22, of Tiffin, Ohio, was killed Nov. 19 by a roadside bomb in Fallujah. He was assigned to Perrysburg. He met his wife, Clara, at Tiffin, where Jeremy was a tight end for the football team. He received a degree in criminal justice in 2006 and advisers in Washington, D.C. _ where he did his internship at the International Criminal Police Organization in the summer of 2005 _ suggested he enlist in the military to get experience with the government. “He was just an extraordinary kid,” said Jeremy’s father, Duane. “He had set all these goals in life.” Shock’s former roommate, Seth Mahon, remembered a good friend who was smart, worked hard, and made them laugh. “Jeremy was the greatest guy I ever met, and I’m not just saying that because he’s gone now,” Mahon said. “If you needed something, he was always there for you.”