Andrew Paul Nelson, age 22, from Moorhead, Minnesota, Clay county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Troop A, 1St Squadron, 73D Cavalry, Fort Bragg, Nc
Date of death: Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Muqdadiyah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Jason Alan Schumann, age 23, from Hawley, Minnesota, Clay county.
Parents: Jim Schumann and stepmother Sherry Schumann
Spouse: Laura Schumann
Children: Joe, 1
Service era: Iraq
Schools: Hawley High (2002)
Military history: Troop A, 3D Squadron, 89Th Cavalry Regiment (Rsta), 4 Bct, Fort Polk, La
Date of death: Saturday, May 19, 2007
Death details: Killed when a bomb eploded near his vehicle in Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
John Arne Olson, age 21, from Clay County Sabin, Minnesota .
Parents: Bertha Olson
Service era: Beirut bombings
Schools: Moorhead High (1980)
Date of death: Sunday, October 23, 1983
Death details: Among more than 200 military personnel killed in the terroist bombing of Marine headquarters in Beirut.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Minneapolis Star Tribune (1983)
Daniel Lawrence Aamold, age 18, from Moorhead, Minnesota, Clay county.
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Moorehead High 91969)
Military history: Died in his sleep in South Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, August 20, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Minneapolis Star (1970)
John L. Opgrand from Minnesota, Clay county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Wednesday, June 10, 1942
Death details: Following the Allied surrender on the Bataan Peninsula on April 9, 1942, the Japanese began the forcible transfer of American and Filipino prisoners of war to various prison camps in central Luzon, at the northern end of the Philippines. The largest of these camps was the notorious Cabanatuan Prison Camp. At its peak, Cabanatuan held approximately 8,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war that were captured during and after the Fall of Bataan. Camp overcrowding worsened with the arrival of Allied prisoners who had surrendered from Corregidor on May 6, 1942. Conditions at the camp were poor, with food and water extremely limited, leading to widespread malnutrition and outbreaks of malaria and dysentery. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, approximately 2,800 Americans had died at Cabanatuan. Prisoners were forced to bury the dead in makeshift communal graves, often completed without records or markers. As a result, identifying and recovering remains interred at Cabanatuan was difficult in the years after the war. Private First Class John L. Opgrand joined the U.S. Army Air Forces from Minnesota and was a member of the 19th Air Base Squadron, 20th Air Base Group in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured in Bataan following the American surrender on April 9, 1942, and died of malnutrition on June 10, 1942, at the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province. He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs; however, his remains could not be associated with any remains recovered from Cabanatuan after the war. Today, Private First Class Opgrand is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Delbert Jake Anderson, age 24, from Clay County Dilworth, Minnesota .
Parents: Edwin Sigfried Anderson
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency