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Ross A Smith, age 21, from Wyoming, Michigan, Kent county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: I Co, 3D Bn, 5Th Mar, Rct-8, 2D Mardiv
Date of death: Thursday, February 9, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Amiriyah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Timothy Darwin Brown, age 23, from Cedar Springs, Michigan, Kent county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company B, 1St Battalion, 125Th Infantry, (2 Mef), Saginaw, Mi
Date of death: Friday, November 4, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Taqaddum, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Gregory John Fester, age 41, from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Kent county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 351St Civil Affairs Battalion, Fort Bragg, Nc
Date of death: Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Al Iskandariyah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Eric Todd Burri, age 21, from Wyoming, Michigan, Kent county.
Parents: Joanne Burri
Service era: Iraq
Schools: Kelloggsville High (2003)
Military history: 623D Quartermaster Company, 1St Coscom (Mnc-I), Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Date of death: Tuesday, June 7, 2005
Death details: Killed in Baghdad, Iraq when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee in Baghdad
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Nicholas Henry Blodgett, age 21, from Wyoming, Michigan, Kent county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Troop A, 1St Sqdrn, 4Th Cavalry Regiment, (Schweinfurt, Germany) Apo Ae 09226
Date of death: Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Abdalluyah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Aaron Cutler Elandt, age 23, from Lowell, Michigan, Kent county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhc, 1St Battalion, 6Th Infantry Regiment, 1St Armored Division, Apo Ae 09034
Date of death: Sunday, May 30, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Glen D. Jones, age 21, from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Kent county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Monday, February 25, 1991
Death details: Killed by SCUD missle attack.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Gulf War Chronicles
Kenneth Welch, age 33, from Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Service era: Beirut bombings
Parent: Betty
Date of death: Thursday, September 20, 1984
Death details: Among 23 people killed when two terrorists in a van loaded with explosives drove past concrete barriers and through a barrage of gunfire at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, kennethwelch.com, UPI (1984)
Paul G. Bast, age 29, from Kent County Grand Rapids, Michigan .
Spouse: Married
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Holland High (1961), Hope College (1965)
Military history: 355th Tactical Fighter Squadron
Date of death: Tuesday, February 1, 1972
Death details: Non-hostile, killed while flying a plane over Thailand.
Source: National Archives, Holland Evening Sentinel (1972)
Harold Owen Harper, age 20, from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Kent county.
Parents: Manford O. Harper
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: Killed in action
Date of death: Saturday, September 12, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)