Canadian serving in Iraq with U.S. killed by insurgents
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 | 5:26 PM ET
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A Canadian serving with the U.S. Army in Iraq was killed by insurgents this week, just days before his return home.
Cpl. Michael Seeley, formerly of Fredericton, was on patrol with Bravo Company of the 28th Infantry when he died Monday.
A Mi'kmaq, Seeley joined the Canadian Forces in 1998 before enlisting in the U.S. Marines the next year.
He served with the Marines in Japan, South America, Africa and Iraq before getting an honourable discharge after four years.
He then joined the U.S. Army and was stationed in Fort Hood, Texas, when he was deployed to Iraq.
"I am so proud of Mike," Betty Ann Lavallee, chief of the New Brunswick Aboriginal Peoples Council, said in a statement Tuesday.
"Like so many young aboriginal men and women … Seeley volunteered to serve without regard for what he was being asked to do."
The soldier's parents, Theresa and Lorne Seeley, live in Fredericton.
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