How Michael died

Killed when his vehicle encountered a makeshift bomb during combat operations in Baghdad. [source: Faces of the Fallen]
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Press Coverage [source: Faces of the Fallen]

Soldier's 'deep spirit' will be missed
  (Livingston Daily, Mich., March 25, 2008)

Iraq explosion kills former Sacramento resident
  (Sacramento Bee, March 27, 2008)