Marine who fell and died “did not like the Marines”

The parents of Luke Monahan, a 19-year-old Marine who fell from a Waikiki hotel and died shortly afterward, spoke to the Honolulu Star Advertiser about the incident:

“He was quiet,” his mother said. “He wasn’t a bad kid. He just didn’t like to do homework. He said that if he went into the Marines he would get an education for free and get anything he wanted.”

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“He did not like the Marines, but he seemed to be OK with Hawaii,” Eileen said.

But his mother refuses to come to Hawai’i to claim her son’s body:

“I hate that place. That place killed my son,” Eileen said. “I’m never going back there, ever. The Marines will ship his body to us.”