Ryan James Sorensen, age 26, from Boca Raton, Florida, Palm Beach county.
Parents: James and Rebecca Sorensen
Service era: Iraq
Schools: Boca Raton Community High (1998)
Military history: I Co, 3D Bn, 6Th Mar, Rct-2, 2D Mar Div, Camp Lejeune, Nc
Date of death: Sunday, November 6, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Husaybah, Iraq
Cemetery: Florida National
Source: Department of Defense, legacy.com, Military Times
Scott Ronald McHugh, age 33, from Boca Raton, Florida, Palm Beach county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Fourteen, Jacksonville, Florida
Date of death: Sunday, May 2, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Ar Ramadi, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Earl Patton Ryals, age 25, from Boca Raton, Florida, Palm Beach county.
Spouse: Susan
Service era: Cold War
Date of death: Sunday, May 17, 1987
Death details: Died aboard the USS Stark. While in the Persian Gulf on May 17, 1987, she was struck by two Iraqi Exocet missiles, killing 37 sailors and wounding 21. Brought under control, the frigate sailed to Bahrain and was successfully repaired at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi. Following repairs and subsequent tours in the Atlantic and Middle East, Stark was decommissioned on May 7, 1999, and was scrapped in 2006.
Source: Associated Press, National Museum of the U.S. Navy
Walter Ray Winters, age 31, from Boca Raton, Florida, Palm Beach county.
Parents: John Wroblewski
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, October 3, 1970
Death details: Killed in Vietnam in a helicopter crash
Cemetery: Saint Louis
Source: National Archives, Palm Beach Post (1970)
Kimball Hayes Sheldon, age 22, from Boca Raton, Florida, Palm Beach county.
Parents: Rogers H. Sheldon
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, March 31, 1970
Death details: He was a crew chief on a military aircraft on a military mission over Vietnam when the aircraft crashed and burned for unknown reasons.
Source: National Archives, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (1970)