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Minnesota Marine killed

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Nov 20, 2012 at 6:25 am

NEW PRAGUE, Minn. (KNSI) A Minnesota Marine has been killed in Afghanistan.

JoLyn Means says the Marines told her family Sunday night that her 23-year-old brother, Lance Corporal Dale Means, was killed by an improvised explosive device in southern Helmand province.

Dale Means was deployed to Afghanistan in July. It was his first tour of duty.

Means graduated from New Prague High School in 2007 and married his wife Andrea, also a 2007 New Prague graduate, in October 2011. The couple lived off-base at Camp Lejeune, N.C., where Means was stationed.

Means enlisted in the Marines about two years ago. His sister says he ``wanted to do something important in his life.''

Funeral arrangements are pending.