A hero's death for B'klyn man: Marine dies trying to save pal

A hero's death for B'klyn man: Marine dies trying to save pal: "A young Brooklyn man who became a Marine to be just like his dad was mortally wounded trying to save a comrade during a bloody clash in Afghanistan last week, grieving kin and the military said yesterday.

'The last thing I told him when he came home for Thanksgiving was, 'Be safe, Jabari. I want you to come back home alive.' And he smiled -- he had a lovely smile,' recalled Njaye Shinhoster, 57, the shattered stepmom of slain Lance Cpl. Jabari Thompson, 22.

'He said he loved us and that he'd be back,' she said.

But Thompson, a machine-gunner, never recovered from the horrific wounds he sustained in combat July 13 in Afghanistan's Helmand province, succumbing at a military hospital in Germany on Sunday.

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