Lance Cpl. Jeremy D. Bow

In his last call to his father, Jeremy Bow joked about Iraq not being the desert playground seen in the animated movie "Aladdin." "The last thing I said to him was to be careful, to always wear his flak jacket," said his father, Art Taft. "He said to me ''Oh, Dad, don''t be an old woman. I''m always careful.''" Bow, 20, of Lemoore, Calif., was killed Oct. 30 by a car bomb in Anbar province. He was based in Hawaii. Bow was a Boy Scout active in The Church of Latter-day Saints, and loved spending time with his family. He joined the Marines shortly after graduating from high school. "From the moment he decided to join he was very proud to be a Marine, and he just wasn''t the same little boy I had known. He became a man," said Taft, a former Marine. Bow is also survived by his mother and stepfather, Lori and Jack Bow. During the 21-gun salute at his funeral, Taft said he couldn''t help imagining his son smiling. "Jeremy would have loved that gun salute. He would have been poking me in the ribs, smiling, saying, ''That was cool, Dad.''"