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Jamie Alan Gray, age 29, from Montpelier, Vermont, Washington county.
Service era: Iraq – Operation Iraqi Freedom
Military history: Hhb, 1st Battalion, 86th Field Artillery, 7846 Williston Road, Williston, Vermont
Date of death: Monday, June 7, 2004
Death details: Killed by a roadside bomb in Asr Jackson, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
William Joseph Normandy, age 42, from Montpelier, Vermont, Washington county.
Service era: Iraq – Operation Iraqi Freedom
Military history: Hhb Fwd 1st Bn 86th Fa, Williston, Vermont
Date of death: Monday, March 15, 2004
Death details: Kuwait City, Kuwait. Died from non-combat related injuries from Camp Virginia, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Stephen Douglas Carr, age 26, from Barre, Vermont, Washington county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, August 26, 1970
Death details: Died in South Vietnam in combat as a helicopter pilot
Cemetery: Hope
Source: National Archives, Barre Times Argus (1970)
Brian Stanley Orr, age 20, from Waitsfield, Vermont, Washington county.
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Harwood Union High graduate
Date of death: Tuesday, May 12, 1970
Death details: Hostile in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
William Robert Walbridge, age 18, from Montpelier, Vermont, Washington county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, April 18, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile, died in South Vietnam. Found shot to death on the ground of his camp.
Source: National Archives, Department of Defense, Rutland Daily Herald (1970)
Donald Wayne Miner from Vermont, Washington county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Wednesday, January 31, 1951
Death details: On July 11, 1950, the U.S. Army’s 21st Infantry Regiment, which had arrived in Korea six days earlier, was placed in defensive positions near the town of Chochiwon, South Korea. The regiment was not at full strength and lacked artillery and anti-tank weapons. That day, they were attacked by North Korean forces and were forced to withdraw to avoid being surrounded, as well as to buy time until they could be reinforced and resupplied. Private First Class Donald Wayne Miner, who joined the U.S. Army from Vermont, served with M Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces on July 12 north of Chochiwon, and was forced to march north to the Apex prison camps in North Korea. He died of malnutrition and pneumonia on January 31, 1951, at the camp at Hanjang-ni, and was buried a short distance from the camp. His remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the ceasefire, and he is still unaccounted for. Today, Private First Class Miner is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Thomas A. Forbes, age 24, from Barre, Vermont, Washington county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Wednesday, December 4, 1918
Death details: Died of disease
Cemetery: Hope in Barre
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com