Honoring Lives Lost to Conflict

Aaron James Taylor, a 27-year-old from Bovey, MN, served as a Staff Sergeant in the US Marine Corps and died on October 9, 2009, in Camp Dwyer, Afghanistan.

Kenneth Warren Westbrook, a 41-year-old American combatant from Shiprock, NM, served in the Army's 1st Infantry Division and died on October 7, 2009, in Washington, United States.

On October 6, 2009, the ARMY lost MAJ Hervas, Tad Thomas of COON RAPIDS, MN in COB BASRAH, IRAQ. He was 48.

U.S. Army Specialist Kevin Olsen Hill, 23, of Brooklyn, New York, was killed in a hostile incident on October 4, 2009, at Combat Outpost Dehanna in Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Justin Timothy Gallegos, 27, of Tucson, Arizona, was killed in action on October 3, 2009, during a major enemy assault on Combat Outpost Keating in Kamdesh, Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Sergeant Christopher Todd Griffin, 24, of Kincheloe, Michigan, was killed in action on October 3, 2009, during a battle at Combat Outpost Keating in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Sergeant Joshua Mitchell Hardt, 24, of Applegate, California, was killed in action on October 3, 2009, during the Battle of Kamdesh at Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Sergeant Joshua John Kirk, 30, of South Portland, Maine, was killed in hostile action on October 3, 2009, in Kamdesh, Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Specialist Stephan Lee Mace, 21, of Lovettsville, Virginia, died on October 3, 2009, at Forward Operating Base Bostick, Afghanistan, from wounds sustained in combat.

Staff Sergeant Vernon William Martin, 25, of Savannah, Georgia, was a U.S. Army soldier killed in a complex enemy attack on Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan on October 3, 2009.

U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Thomas Duane Rabjohn, 39, of Avondale, Arizona, was killed in a hostile incident in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, on October 3, 2009.

U.S. Army Sergeant Michael Patrick Scusa, 22, of Villas, New Jersey, was killed in action on October 3, 2009, in Kamdesh, Afghanistan. He served with Troop B, 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, based at Fort Carso

Kevin Christopher Thomson, an American PFC from Reno, NV, died on October 3, 2009, at age 22 in COP Keating, Afghanistan, serving in the U.S. Army.

U.S. Army Sergeant Ryan Christopher Adams, 26, of Rhinelander, Wisconsin, died on October 2, 2009, in Logar Province, Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Private First Class Alan Howard Newton Jr., 26, of Asheboro, North Carolina, died on October 2, 2009, at the Role 3 hospital at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Specialist Brandon Andre Owens, 21, of Memphis, Tennessee, died on October 2, 2009, from hostile action at Forward Operating Base Shank in Logar Province, Afghanistan.

Captain Benjamin A. Sklaver, 32, of Medford, Massachusetts, was a civil affairs officer serving with the U.S. Army's 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion, attached to Task Force Stryker in Afghanistan.

Sgt. Aaron Michael Smith, 25, of Manhattan, Kansas, was a U.S. Army infantryman serving with Task Force Spartan in Afghanistan. He died on October 2, 2009, in Wardak province.