Remembering Lance Corporal George J. Payton

NPR | By Carrie Kahn

Published December 2, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

NPR's Carrie Kahn reports on the life and death of Lance Cpl. George J. Payton, a young man from the Southern California town of Culver City who died in combat in Fallujah. Payton loved to laugh, party and listen to the music of the late hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur.

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