Tupelo twin Marine shot Tuesday in accident at Camp Lejeune

Mississippi Marine dies
Tupelo twin shot Tuesday in accident at Camp Lejeune
The Clarion-Ledger
Written by
Therese Apel
April 11, 2014

Twins Mike and Mark Boterf knew when they decided to go into the Marines together during wartime that they might not come out of it together.

“We made up our minds that whatever happened, happened, and if it did, we’d see each other on the other side,” Mike Boterf said of his brother, who was killed in what officials say was an accident on Tuesday at Camp Lejeune.

“God handpicks them. God made some men to be the ones who fight the battles, and we wanted to be those men, to devote our lives to our country. It wasn’t just for an enlistment. The war was in full swing when we were growing up. We knew we were joining in a time of war,” Mike Boterf said. “But I never actually thought I’d see the day I’d have to bury him.”

The twin 21-year-old Marines from a family of 10 children were once Tupelo High School students.

It has been widely reported that Mark Boterf was serving orders voluntarily for a friend who had gone to get married, but Mike Boterf said it was a six-month assignment that he took in order to allow his friend to get married.
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