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Edward B. Smith, age 30, from Homestead, Florida, Miami-Dade county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Washington
Date of death: Thursday, September 24, 2009
Death details: Died in Omar Zai, Afghanistan of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Christian A. Guzman Rivera, age 21, from Homestead, Florida, Miami-Dade county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 3rd Combat Assault Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Okinawa, Japan.
Date of death: Thursday, August 6, 2009
Death details: Died while supporting combate operation in Farah Province, Afghanistan.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Juan Estevan Segura, age 26, from Homestead, Florida, Dade county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: K Co, 3D Bn, 1St Mar, Rct-1, 1St Mar Div, Camp Pendleton, Ca
Date of death: Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Fallujah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
John Anderson Arrant, age 24, from Homestead, Florida, Miami-Dade county.
Parents: John Canty Arrant
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