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Kelly Branden Grothe, age 21, from Spokane, Washington, Spokane county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company B, 321St Engineer Battalion, Hayden Lake, Id
Date of death: Thursday, May 3, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Ar Ramadi, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, findagrave.com
Clint Jeffrey Prather, age 32, from Cheney, Washington, Spokane county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company F, 1St Battalion, 159Th Aviation, Tf Wings(Cjtf-76), Apo Ae
Date of death: Wednesday, April 6, 2005
Death details: Ghazni, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Harley D R Miller, age 21, from Spokane, Washington, Spokane county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: B Troop, 3D Squadron, 4Th Cav Regiment, 25Th Id, Schofield Barracks, Hi 96857
Date of death: Saturday, November 27, 2004
Death details: Bamian, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Curt Edward Jordan Jr., age 25, from Greenacres, Washington, Spokane county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: A Company, 14Th Engineer Battalion, Fort Lewis, Wa 98433
Date of death: Sunday, December 28, 2003
Death details: Fob Speicher, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Robert Theodore Benson, age 20, from Spokane, Washington, Spokane county.
Spouse: Aimee Hiatt (December 2002)
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company A, 1St Battalion / 35Th Armor, Apo Ae 09340
Date of death: Wednesday, November 5, 2003
Death details: Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
David A Higgs, age 20, from Spokane, Washington, Spokane county.
Parents: Jay Higgs
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, May 13, 1975
Death details: One of the 23 men killed in a CH53 helicopter crash in Thailand.
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1975), findagrave.com
Philip Spratt Jr. Clark from Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, Spokane county.
Spouse: Sheryl Ann Taylor (1946 – 1971)
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, December 24, 1972
Death details: On February 17, 1989, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) identified the remains of Lieutenant Commander Philip Spratt Clark Jr., missing from the Vietnam War.
Lieutenant Commander Clark joined the U.S. Navy from Washington and was a member of Attack Squadron 113, embarked aboard the USS Ranger. On December 24, 1972, he piloted an A-7 Corsair on a mine laying mission over the Renaud Channel off the North Vietnamese coast. LCDR Clark’s Corsair went down during the mission, and he died in the incident. Search and rescue attempts for LCDR Clark were unsuccessful. In February 1989, the Vietnamese government repatriated a set of remains that U.S. analysts identified as those of LCDR Clark.
Cemetery: Arlington National
Source: National Archives, findagrave.com, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Douglas Allen Howard, age 21, from Spokane County Spokane, Washington .
Parents: Linda Howard
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: Green Berets
Date of death: Friday, February 25, 1972
Death details: Killed in action in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Spokane Chronicle (1972)
Steven Wayne Neville, age 19, from Spokane, Washington, Spokane county.
Spouse: Selna L. Neville
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, September 25, 1971
Death details: Body recovered
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Associated Press (1971)
Kim William Widmer, age 20, from Spokane, Washington, Spokane county.
Parents: William H. Widmer
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Rogers High (1968)
Date of death: Sunday, October 25, 1970
Death details: Body recovered
Source: National Archives, Spokesman Review (1970)