Honoring Lives Lost to Conflict

Christopher Matthew Wrinkle, an American, was a Sergeant in the Marine Corps, killed in action on July 31, 2011, in Herat, Afghanistan, during Operation Enduring Freedom.

Jered Wayne Ewy, a 33-year-old Second Lieutenant from Edmond, Oklahoma, was killed in a hostile incident in Janak Kheyl, Paktya Province, Afghanistan, on July 29, 2011, while serving with the Oklahoma Army National Guard.

SPC Augustus James Vicari, 22, from Broken Arrow, OK, died on July 29, 2011 in Janak Kheyl, Afghanistan while serving in the Army National Guard.

Petty Officer Second Class Matthew James Bergman, 21, of Franklin, Tennessee, was a U.S. Navy sailor killed in action in Iraq on July 26, 2011.

MSG Benjamin Allen Stevenson, 36, from Canyon Lake, TX, died in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, on July 21, 2011, during Operation Enduring Freedom.

U.S. Army Staff Sergeant James Michael Christen, 29, of Loomis, California, died on July 19, 2011, in Asmar District, Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Sergeant Jacob Molina, 27, of Houston, Texas, died on July 19, 2011, at Forward Operating Base Bostick in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.

Petty Officer First Class Stacy Oredia Johnson, 36, of Rolling Fork, Mississippi, was a U.S. Navy sailor assigned to Naval Security Force Bahrain. He died on July 18, 2011, in Manama, Bahrain.

Sgt. Omar Alejandro Jones, 28, of Crook, Colorado, was a U.S. Army National Guard soldier. He was killed in action on July 18, 2011, at Forward Operating Base De Dadi II in Regional Command North, Afghanistan.

Sgt. Edward William Koehler III, 47, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was a member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. He died on July 18, 2011, in a hostile incident on Highway 1 in Afghanistan.

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.