Honoring Lives Lost to Conflict

Lance Corporal David Raymond Baker, 22, of Painesville, Ohio, was a U.S. Marine killed in action on October 20, 2009, in Nawa District, Afghanistan.

TROOP E, 1ST SQUADRON, 12TH CAVALRY, 3 BCT, FORT HOOD, TX, ARMY ? SSG Espinoza, Bradley (MISSION, TX), age 26, ? died in QWEST, IRAQ on October 19, 2009. Cause: HOSTILE.

In MOSUL, IRAQ on October 18, 2009, the ARMY lost PFC Rivera, Daniel Jose of ROCHESTER, NY, 22, serving with TROOP D, 3D SQUADRON, 8TH CAVALRY, FORT HOOD, TX.

U.S. Army Specialist Michael Anthony Dahl Jr., 23, of Moreno Valley, California, was killed in a hostile incident at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, on October 17, 2009.

U.S. Army Sergeant Anthony Gabriel Green, 28, of Matthews, North Carolina, was killed in a hostile incident at Forward Operating Base Ghanzi, Afghanistan, on October 16, 2009.

Staff Sergeant Christopher Michael Rudzinski, 28, of Rantoul, Illinois, was a U.S. Army soldier serving with the 293rd Military Police Company during Operation Enduring Freedom. He died on October 16, 2009, at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanista

Chris Neil Staats, an American soldier from Fredericksburg, TX, died on October 16, 2009, during Operation Enduring Freedom in Jaghato District, Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Specialist Jesus Olar Flores Jr., 28, of La Mirada, California, was killed in a hostile incident near the Arghandab River bridge in Afghanistan on October 15, 2009.

U.S. Army Specialist Daniel Courtney Lawson, 33, of Deerfield Beach, Florida, was killed by hostile fire on October 15, 2009, at the Arghandab River Bridge in Afghanistan.

Glen Hale Stivison Jr, aged 34, was an American Army Staff Sergeant with the 569th Engineer Company, 4th Engineer Battalion, killed in hostile action in Afghanistan on October 15, 2009.

At 19, PFC Brandon Michael Styer of Lancaster, PA, served with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan, where he died on October 15, 2009, due to hostile action.

U.S. Army Specialist George Walter Cauley, 24, of Walker, Minnesota, died on October 10, 2009, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, from hostile action.

Lance Cpl. Alfonso Ochoa Jr., 20, of Armona, California, was a U.S. Marine killed in hostile action in Bakwa district, Afghanistan, on October 10, 2009.

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.