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WEBVTT TOYS AND JUST DEPLOYED JUST TWOWEEKS AGO.>> HE WAS VERY MUCH INTO HISGREEN ARMY MEN AND THEY WERE ALLOVER THE HOUSE AT ANY TIME.HE WOULD BUILD THEM UP ANDINCLUDE ALL OF THE PEOPLE IN THENEIGHBORHOOD.RHONDELL ARMY RANGER ETIENNE MURPHY AT 22 YEARS OLD WASLIVING HIS DREAM, ARMY MAN, ANDYOUNG FAMILY MAN WITH TWO SONSBACK HOME WITH HIS WIFE MARTHAIN GEORGIA.THE ANTI-TANK GUNNER DIED FRIDAYIN NORTHERN SYRIA, WHEN HIVEHICLE ROLLED OVER IN SYRIA ONHIS VERY FIRST THE BLAME IT.>> IT HURTS.>> THE GOOD LORD TOOK HIM AWAY.RHONDELLA: THE BROCKTON NATIVEUP AGAINST 470 PEOPLECOMPETITING TO BE A RANGERPOSITION, WAS ONE OF ONLY 70CHOOSEN.-- ONE O ONLY 70 CHOSEN.>> HE WAS DOING WHAT HE LOVED TODO.>> EVERY TIME I TALK TO THEM I'DSAY I'M BACKING YOU UP, I'MBACKING YOU UP.RHONDELLA: FLAGS ARE LOWERED FORMEMORIAL DAY AT MURPHY'SBROCKTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ANDACROSS THE STATE, SERVICE, PARTOF MURPHY'S, DNA.>> I DIDN'T WANT HIM TO GO.MY SON IS A FIREMAN.I DID NOT WHAT HIM TO DO THAT.MY DAUGHTER IS A COP I DIDN'TWANT HER TO DO THAT.BUT AFTER THEY GOT INTO IT, ITSEEMS LIKE -- OH, I'M PROUD OFYOU, I'M PROUD OF YOU.RHONDELL THEY ARE ALSO PROUD.THE PARENTS ARE AT DOVER AIRFORCE RAISE IN DELAWARE AWAITING THE RETUR OF HIS BODY.THERE IS A GOFUNDME PAGE TO GET

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A U.S. service member who was born in Boston was killed in a vehicle accident in northern Syria on Thursday. Etienne J. Murphy, who recently turned 22, was an infantryman assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment at Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia. Officials said he was on his first deployment. He was born in May 1995 in Boston, attended Brookfield Elementary School in Brockton and started in Brockton High School before the family moved away. Murphy enlisted in the U.S. Army from his hometown of Snellville, Georgia in June 2013. He and his wife married three years ago and they have two children. "He was doing what he loved to do," said Aretha Murphy, his grandmother. "I loved that about him." Shayniya Murphy Porter, said joining the Army was her cousin's a lifelong passion. "He was into his green army men (as a child), all over the house," she said about Murphy. "He included the whole neighborhood in his battles." "He knew what he wanted and was going after it. That's the whole thing right there," Aretha Murphy recalled. "I said, 'Etienne, you're gonna be somebody,' and he would laugh at me and say, 'Yes, nana.'" The Army said Murphy's awards and decorations include the Parachutist Badge, Army Achievement Medal with 3 OLC, Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, NATO Medal, and Operation Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal with Campaign Star. Murphy was posthumously awarded the Army Commendation Medal. His parents and an aunt traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where Murphy's body will be returned Sunday afternoon. Services will be held in Atlanta. The United States has slightly more than 900 military personnel in Syria to advise and assist Kurdish and Arab rebel forces fighting ISIS. Two other American service members have died in Syria since U.S. troops arrived there in early 2016. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Scott C. Dayton, 42, was killed by an improvised explosive device in northern Syria on Nov. 24, 2016. U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Austin L. Bieren, 25, died from suspected natural causes while deployed to northern Syria on March 28.