Honoring Lives Lost to Conflict

U.S. Air Force Major Alex Klinner died on March 12, 2026 during a KC-135 operational mission connected to Operation Epic Fury.

U.S. Air Force Captain Ariana G. Savino died on March 12, 2026 during an operational mission involving a KC-135 aircraft.

The crew of the Iranian Navy frigate IRIS Dena were 104 sailors killed on March 4, 2026, when their vessel was torpedoed and sank in the Indian Ocean south of Galle, Sri Lanka.

General Abdol Rahim Mousavi was the Chief of Staff of the Iranian Army and a veteran of the Iran-Iraq War. He was killed in a US-Israeli airstrike in Tehran on March 2, 2026.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was the second Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was killed in an airstrike on his compound in Tehran on March 1, 2026.

U.S. Army Reserve Sergeant Declan Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa, was killed on March 1, 2026, in an Iranian drone strike on a military operations center at the Port of Shuaiba, Kuwait.

Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota, was a US Army Reserve senior non-commissioned officer. She was killed on March 1, 2026, in an Iranian drone strike on a US facility at Kuwait's Port of Shuaiba.

Yahya Sinwar was the political and military leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. He was killed in Rafah, Gaza, on October 16, 2024, during an Israeli military operation.

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was the Secretary-General of Hezbollah from 1992 until his death. He was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Dahieh suburb of south Beirut, Lebanon, on September 27, 2024.

U.S. Army Reserve Specialist Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Georgia, was killed in a drone strike on the Tower 22 outpost in northeastern Jordan on January 28, 2024.

General Qassem Soleimani was commander of Iran's Quds Force. He was killed in a U.S. drone strike at Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020.

Captain Jonathan Joseph Golden, 33, of Camarillo, California, was a U.S. Air Force C-130J pilot assigned to the 39th Airlift Squadron. He was killed in action in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on October 2, 2015.

Gilles Jacquier was a French journalist for France Télévisions. He was killed on January 11, 2012, while on assignment in Homs, Syria.

Fadel Shana was a Palestinian journalist working for Reuters. He was killed by an Israeli tank shell on April 16, 2008, while covering hostilities in the Gaza Strip.

Airman First Class Raymond Losano, 24, of Redding, California, was a member of the U.S. Air Force's 14th Air Support Operations Squadron. He died in a hostile incident near Kandahar, Afghanistan, on April 25, 2003.