Soldier Who 'Loved' Heavy Metal Killed In Iraq: Funeral To Be Held This Weekend

August 13, 2004

Jo Collins Mathis of the Ann Arbor News is reporting that GUNS N' ROSES and METALLICA music will be played at the funeral of Spc. Donnie McCune, who was killed last week when an improvised explosive device detonated while he and three others were patrolling in a Hummer in Iraq. He died 24 hours later in a German hospital. Two of the others remain hospitalized in serious condition in Germany. The fourth soldier was not injured.

A heavy metal fan, McCune, 20, landed in Iraq on May 1, just 19 then. Though her heart was aching, McCune's mother, Darcy Lewis, couldn't have been prouder.

"He believed in what he was doing and died for that reason," she told the Ann Arbor News. Read more.

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