Hero Stories for Operation Iraqi Freedom

Born: July 28, 1985 Died: April 9, 2005 in Landstuhl, Germany Spc. Casey M. LaWare of Redding, California continued a long line of military service in his family and had slept with his grandfather’s World War II wool blanket. Casey had the values of a young man from decades past as though he was born 60 [.

Died: March 30, 2010 in Washington, D.C. Spc. Kansas J. Counts Johnson City, Tennessee was a native of Johnson City and a graduate of Unicoi County High School and was a son of Roger and Brenda Robertson Counts. Kansas was active in the United States Army and had served tours of duty in both Kuwait [.

Born: April 29, 1971 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts Died: May 2, 2004 in Iraq Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Scott R. McHugh of Boca Raton Florida grew up in Boca Raton and graduated from Spanish River High in 1989. He loved fishing and playing pool, but never really settled on a career so he attended Palm [.

Born: October 4, 1979 in Colville, Washington Died: January 26, 2009 in Kirkuk, Iraq Chief Warrant Officer 2 Benjamin H. Todd of Colville, Washington loved to ride dirt motorcycles and four-wheelers. He lived in Orient, Washington until the age of ten when his family moved to Colville and where he completed his education in 1997. Ben [.

Born: December 26, 1988 in Middleboro, Massachusetts Died: August 14, 2008 in Iraq Pfc. Daniel A. McGuire of Mashpee, Massachusetts was 2007 graduate of Mashpee High School where he took honors classes, played lacrosse, sang in the school choir and acted in plays. Dan had been accepted to colleges and won scholarships but chose to join [.

Born: Febraury 3, 1987 in Beatrice, Nebraska Died: January 28, 2008, Iraq Spc. Brandon A. Meyer of Orange, California grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and graduating in 2005 from Canyon High School in Texas. He also studied biology at Concordia University in Irvine before joining the Army in January 2007. Brandon was a Christian. He [.