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Eusebio Lopez, age 25, from Virginia, Stafford county.
Military history: Officer Candidates School
Date of death: Thursday, March 21, 2013
Death details: Committed suicide after he killed two fellow Marines, Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia
Source: Virginia Military Dead Database, Library of Virginia, Richmond,; Military Times
Latonio Bratton, age 22, from Virginia, Richmond, City of county.
Date of death: Sunday, August 21, 2011
School: Armstrong High
Death details: Homicide, Richmond, Virginia. Police said he was found dead inside a car on Bethel Street in the Whitcomb Court area.
Source: Virginia Military Dead Database from the Library of Virginia, Richmond; Legacy, WWBT
Max W. Donahue, age 23, from Highlands Ranch, Colorado, Douglas county.
Service era: Aghanistan
Military history: I Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, California. Enlisted July 17, 2006.
Date of death: Saturday, August 7, 2010
Death details: Died of wounds received Aug. 4 while supporting combat operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Source: Department of Defense, North County Times, Military Times
Jared N. Van Aalst, age 34, from Laconia, New Hampshire, Belknap county.
Parents: Neville Van Aalst and Nancy Van Aalst
Spouse: Katie Van Aalst
Children: Kaylie Van Aalst and Ava Van Aalst
Service era: Aghanistan
Schools: Plymouth Regional High (1993)
Military history: Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Bronze Star and Purple Heart, two each. Enlisted 1995.
Date of death: Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Death details: Died of wounds suffered while his unit was conducting combat operations.
Source: Department of Defense, Nashua Telegraph, Military Times
Kyle B. Stout, age 25, from Texarkana, Texas, Bowie county.
Parents: Billy M. Stout and Robin C. Stout
Spouse: None
Service era: Aghanistan
Military history: 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
Date of death: Friday, July 30, 2010
Death details: Died in Kandahar, Afghanistan of injuries sustained when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device.
Source: Department of Defense, Texarkana Gazette, Military Times
Michael Freyholtz from Hines, Minnesota, Beltrami county.
Parents: Mary Freyholtz
Spouse: Ex-wife Kim Freyholtz
Children: Son, 9; daughter, 8
Schools: Blackduck High graduate; University of Minnesota-Duluth.
Military history: Alaska Air National Guard’s 249th Airlift Squadron. Enlisted in Air Force May 1998. 608 combat hours in support of Operations Enduinrg Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
Date of death: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Death details: Aboard a C-17 cargo plane when it went down in a ball of fire at an Air Force base near Anchorage, Alaska during preparation for an air show. Killed were Aaron Malone, Michael Freyholtz, Jeffrey A. Hill and Thomas Cicardo.
Source: Cedar Rapids Gazette, Anchorage Daily News, Star Tribune, CNN, Bemideji Pioneer
Thomas E. Rivers, age 22, from Birmingham, Alabama.
Service era: Aghanistan
Schools: Briarwood Christian School (2007)
Military history: 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment , 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
Date of death: Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Death details: Died while supporting combat operation in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Source: Department of Defense, WRAL, Military Times
Gerard Curran, age 45, from Virginia
Spouse: Dawn Curran
School: Willits High (2003)
Date of death: Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Death details: Death was first ruled a suicide at First Landing State Park, Virginia Beach, Virginia. However, an follow-up investigation led to the arrest of Paul Stephen Bricker, 27. He pleaded guilty in 2018 to voluntary manslaughter. Curran recruited Bricker to help him die. They had served together.
Source:: Willits News, Virginia Military Dead Database, Library of Virginia, Richmond,