WEST BOYLSTON, Mass. -- Two Bay State servicemen have been killed in Iraq on the same day.

NewsCenter 5's Jack Harper reported that Army Spc. Kyle A. Little, 20, of West Boylston, was killed by a roadside bomb on Tuesday north of Baghdad. Marine Walter O'Haire, 20, of Rockland, was also killed in Iraq.

"He would be 21 Tuesday," O'Haire's mother, Maureen O'Haire said. "He died in the line of fire. They said it was enemy fire, and he was shot in the back of the head."

Walter O'Haire was one of nine children. He was a believer in family and country.

"He wanted to do what he could do. He wanted to go defend his country and protect us," Maureen O'Haire said. "I will miss him. He was true to his friends, and he believed in his country. He really did."

Little attended South Shore Vocational-Technical High School in Hanover. His grandmother said that she hopes people remember to support the troops.

"Those boys are just so great. The family is behind them to support them. I hope that all of America supports these boys. I'd hate to see anything else being written other than supporting our troops," Little's grandmother, Lucille Smith, said. "We are going to miss that young man something awful, but God bless America, and I mean that."