those same freedoms at home . He was 14 at the time of the September 11 attacks and graduated in 2005 from Onalaska High School with the same sense of patriotism that drove so many young men and women to join the military . He was working at Lindy 's Subs and Salads when he decided to enlist . Soon , he was in Twentynine Palms in the Mojave Desert for training and the next year on his way to war . Olsen deployed twice with the 3rd Battalion , 4th Marine Regiment to Iraq 's Anbar province , site of some the war 's fiercest battles . Shannon said they often encountered makeshift bombs in their 2006 tour during which 15 of their fellow Marines died . Nygaard said Olsen told him about a couple of close calls , one in which he rolled over a roadside bomb that somehow failed to detonate . Olsen had always been a quiet , shy kid , Nygaard said . A computer whiz , not a jock . And not the type of young man his friends had expected to become an activist . But war touched Olsen as it does almost
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The chaotic scene unfolded with flash-bang grenades , rubber bullets and clouds of smoke . Canisters whizzed through the air amid deafening booms . Marine Lance Cpl. Scott Olsen went down . `` Medic ! Medic ! '' someone yelled . Olsen , 24 , had seen his share of war in two tours of Iraq as a Marine . He was lucky , returning home physically unscathed . But Tuesday evening , near the corner of 14th Avenue and Broadway in Oakland , California , Olsen went down . The video images went viral : streams of crimson flowing down Olsen 's head , his black T-shirt adorned with a white dove of peace , the war veteran carried to a hospital . And with that , the Occupy movement had a face . `` We are all Scott Olsen , '' declared its website . `` It 's ironic , '' said his uncle George Nygaard , that Olsen should be the poster child for this movement . Ironic , said Olsen 's Marine buddy and current roommate Keith Shannon , that a young man who fought for American freedoms should be injured exercising