Honoring Lives Lost to Conflict

Corporal Christian Armando Guzman Rivera, 21, of Homestead, Florida, was a U.S. Marine killed in Farah Province, Afghanistan, on August 6, 2009.

Sgt. Jay Michael Hoskins, 24, of Paris, Texas, was a U.S. Marine killed in hostile action in Farah province, Afghanistan, on August 6, 2009.

Anthony Christian Garcia, a 21-year-old Hospitalman from Tyndall, Florida, died in Afghanistan's Farah province on August 5, 2009, while serving with the U.S. Navy.

Private Second Class Keiffer Prescot Wilhelm, 19, of Plymouth, Ohio, was a U.S. Army cavalry scout. He was killed in action on August 4, 2009, at Forward Operating Base Hunter in Maysan province, Iraq.

Sgt. 1st Class Alejandro Granado III, 42, of Tatum, Texas, was a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier. He died on August 2, 2009, in Qole Gerdsar, Afghanistan, from hostile fire.

Captain Ronald George Luce Jr., 27, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, was a U.S. Army Special Forces officer. He was killed in action on August 2, 2009, in Qole Gerdsar, Afghanistan.

Severin West Summers III, 43, was an American soldier serving in the Army's 20th Special Forces Group when he died in Afghanistan on August 2, 2009.

Patrick Scott Fitzgibbon, a 19-year-old U.S. Army Private First Class from Knoxville, Tennessee, was killed in hostile action on August 1, 2009, in Mushan, Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Private First Class Richard Kelvin Jones, 21, of Person, North Carolina, was killed in hostile action on August 1, 2009, in Mushan village, Afghanistan.

Sgt. Jonathan Michael Walls, an American soldier from West Lawn, PA, died at age 27 in Mushan Village, Afghanistan, on August 1, 2009, during Operation Enduring Freedom.

U.S. Army Specialist Alexander Joel Miller, 21, of Clermont, Florida, was killed in action on July 31, 2009, in the Barge Matal district of Afghanistan's Nuristan province.

Lance Corporal Gregory Alan Posey, a 22-year-old U.S. Marine from Knoxville, Tennessee, was killed in hostile action in Bastion, Afghanistan on July 30, 2009.

Lance Corporal Jonathan Fulton Stroud, an American Marine from Cashion, OK, died at age 20 on July 30, 2009, in Camp Dwyer, Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom.

U.S. Army Sergeant Gerrick D. Smith, 19, of Sullivan, Illinois, was killed in action on July 29, 2009, at Forward Operating Base Heart in Afghanistan. He was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 130th Infantry R

CW2 Douglas M. Vose III, a 38-year-old from Concrete, WA, died in hostile action on July 29, 2009, in Bagram, Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom.

Donald Wayne Vincent, 26, from Gainesville, FL, served with the U.S. Marine Corps and died on July 25, 2009, in Camp Dwyer, Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom.

SFC Polk, Johnny Roosevelt, age 39, of GULFPORT, MS ? Active Duty, ARMY, HHB, 3D BATTALION, 82D FIELD ARTILLERY, 2 BCT, 1ST CAVALRY DIVISION, FORT HOOD, TX, ? died on July 25, 2009 in LANDSTUHL (LRMC), GERMANY. Cause: HOSTILE.

U.S. Army Specialist Justin Dean Coleman, 21, of Weeki Wachee, Florida, was killed in hostile action in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan, on July 24, 2009.