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Nathan R Raudenbush, age 25, from Royersford, Pennsylvania, Montgomery county.
Service era: Iraq – Operation Iraqi Freedom
Military history: Company D, 3d Battalion, 7th Infantry, 4 Bct, Fort Stewart, Ga
Date of death: Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Death details: Hostile, died in Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense
Reyes Ramirez, age 23, from Willis, Texas, Montgomery county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company C, 40Th Engineer Battalion, 1 Bct, (1 Mef), Baumholder, Germany
Date of death: Saturday, June 17, 2006
Death details: Killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee in Ar Ramadi, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Thomas Steven Lipp, age 38, from Glenside, Pennsylvania, Montgomery county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, March 1, 1986
Death details: In 1970, Thomas was fighting in Cambodia when his spinal cord was severed and he lost a kidney and spleen in an ambush. He spent the rest of his life a paraplegic and the last three years in a Veterans hospital before his kidney failed.
Cemetery: HIllside, Roslyn, Pennsylvania
Source: National Archives., Associated Press (1970), findagrave.com