By SARAH GARLAND

The New York Times
June 24, 2006 Saturday
Late Edition - Final
On His 21st Birthday, a Marine Is Mourned
BYLINE: By SARAH GARLAND
SECTION: Section B; Column 1; Metropolitan Desk; Pg. 3

On His 21st Birthday, a Marine Is Mourned

Lance Cpl. Nicholas J. Whyte did not tell anyone he was signing up for the Marines, his father recalled yesterday. The war in Iraq had just begun, and he knew his family would be upset. They were.
But yesterday, as he stood outside the family’s home in Marine Park, Brooklyn, mourning the death of his son on what would have been his 21st birthday, Andre Whyte, a captain with the city’s Department of Correction, said, ”He never did anything a father couldn’t be proud of.”