My prayers to the family of P.O. Rovinski. This area seems to taking a hard hit lately.
Being born and raised there I wish I could make it back for the ride but I will be there in spirit.
Thank you brothers and sisters for all you are doing.
God Bless and ride safe

Gene

Roseville Naval Reservist and Streamwood Marine killed in Iraq

Associated Press

ROSEVILLE, Ill. - Two more Illinois servicemen have been killed in Iraq, family members, friends and military officials said Tuesday.

Gary Rovinski, 44, of Roseville, was killed Monday in a roadside bomb explosion in western Iraq shortly before noon there, said his wife, Jennifer. He was assigned to a Navy convoy support team that escorted supplies, she said.

"The biggest thing I'm thinking right now is that if he could choose a way to go, it would be exactly the way he did," she said. "He believed in what he was doing."

Meanwhile, the Department of Defense announced Tuesday that a 22-year-old suburban Streamwood Marine died Saturday from wounds he received during combat operations in Al Anbar province.

Cpl. Ryan J. Cummings was a member of the 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Marine Expeditionary Force out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., according to a DOD statement. A telephone listing for a Cummings in Streamwood could not be found Tuesday, and military officials declined to provide more information.

Rovinski was in the Navy Reserve and had been in Iraq since early March, his wife said. He was with the Seabees naval construction force and died of a head injury received after a roadside bomb exploded, said Bill Hart, a friend and spokesman for the family.

A Navy Reserve spokesman declined to comment until Rovinski's death was officially posted by the DOD.

Rovinski was the father of two daughters, ages 10 and 13.

"To me, the most special thing about Gary was his smile and his love for people," his wife said. "He always tried to treat them more highly than himself."

Funeral arrangements were pending, Hart said.

Rovinski was employed at the Henry Hill Correctional Center in Galesburg, where he had worked for more than five years before his deployment.

Rovinski is the second Galesburg-area serviceman to die of injuries in Iraq in the past two weeks. Army Pfc. Class Caleb Lufkin, died May 25 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where he was being treated for wounds he suffered earlier in May from a roadside bomb in Iraq.

Roseville is about 21 miles southwest of Galesburg in west-central Illinois.

Streamwood is about 30 miles northwest of Chicago.

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