18-Year-Old Marine Dies of Flesh-Eating Bacteria at 29 Palms
The Standard-Times, New Bedford, Mass. 14 Feb 2018 By Curt Brown
At 18, Becket Kiernan was a driven young man with a big heart, great smile and infectious laugh who was living the life he always wanted: as a Marine.
Kiernan, who was from Rochester, died suddenly Feb. 5 at Marine Corps Base 29 Palms in California from an aggressive bacterial infection called Necrotizing Fasciitis, according to a Facebook post by his mother, Lynda Kiernan.
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