Honoring Lives Lost to Conflict

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.

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.