Honoring Lives Lost to Conflict

Staff Sgt. Brian Keith Mowery, 49, of Halifax, Pennsylvania, was a U.S. Army National Guard soldier. He died on July 18, 2011, in a hostile incident on Highway 1 in Afghanistan.

SSG Kenneth Rowland Vangiesen, 30, from Erie, PA, served with the Army's 128th Brigade Support Battalion in Afghanistan, where he died on July 18, 2011.

U.S. Army Sergeant Mark Adams Cofield, 25, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was killed in action on July 17, 2011, in Baghdad, Iraq.

First Sergeant Kenneth Brian Elwell, 33, of Erie, Pennsylvania, was a U.S. Army soldier serving with Company A, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team. He died on July 17, 2011, in Talukan, Afghanistan.

PFC Tyler Michael Springmann was a 19-year-old American soldier from Hartland, ME, killed in Talukan, Afghanistan on July 17, 2011.

LCPL Jabari Nkosi Thompson, an American Marine from Brooklyn, NY, died at age 22 in Landstuhl, Germany, on July 17, 2011, during Operation Enduring Freedom.

Corporal Raphael Rodrigues Arruda, 21, of Ogden, Utah, was a U.S. Army Reserve engineer killed in a hostile incident in Bar Kunar District, Afghanistan, on July 16, 2011.

Frank Robert Gross, a 25-year-old U.S. Army corporal from Oldsmar, Florida, was killed in a hostile incident in Kasay Kalay, Afghanistan, on July 16, 2011.

U.S. Army Reserve Specialist Daniel Lucas Elliott, 21, of Youngsville, North Carolina, died on July 15, 2011, in Basrah, Iraq.

U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Wyatt Andrew Goldsmith, 28, of Colville, Washington, was killed in action on July 15, 2011, at Bastion Role III medical facility in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

Staff Sergeant Lex Lee Lewis, 40, of Rapid City, South Dakota, was a U.S. Army soldier killed in hostile action at Shewan Garrison, Afghanistan, on July 15, 2011.

SGT Jeremy Russell Summers, an American soldier from Mount Olivet, KY, died at age 27 on July 14, 2011, in Pirkwoti Valley, Afghanistan.

Lance Corporal Christopher Labiano Camero, 19, of Kailua Kona, Hawaii, was a U.S. Marine killed in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on July 12, 2011.

Lance Corporal Robert Stephen Greniger, 21, of Greenfield, Minnesota, was a U.S. Marine killed in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on July 12, 2011.

Aaron David Ullom, a 20-year-old Navy hospitalman from Midland, MI, died in Now Zad District, Afghanistan on July 12, 2011, during Operation Enduring Freedom.

U.S. Army Sergeant Steven L. Talamantez, 34, of Laredo, Texas, was killed in a hostile incident in Al Amarah, Iraq, on July 10, 2011.

Lance Cpl. Norberto Mendez Hernandez, 22, of Logan, Utah, was a U.S. Marine killed in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on July 10, 2011.

U.S. Army Specialist Rafael Angel Nieves Jr., 22, of Albany, New York, was killed in a hostile incident at Forward Operating Base Orgun-E in Afghanistan on July 10, 2011.