Kane'ohe-based Marine gave his family final gift

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Nov/23/ln/ln01p.html

Nothing could be worse than watching your child die, but Lauren Eiler is sure her son's last moments were a gift to his family.

Lance Cpl. Michael A. Downey, a Marine from Arizona, had already suffered for nine days from wounds received in Fallujah when he died Friday at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Downey belonged to the combat engineer battalion from Okinawa that was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment from Marine Corps Base, Hawai'i. He was 21.