Michael E. Thompson
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Age: 23
From: Harrah, Okla.
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 149th Aviation Regiment, Task Force 34, Oklahoma National Guard, Lexington, Okla.
Incident: Army Cpl. Michael E. Thompson died Sept. 17 when the CH-47 Chinook helicopter he was in went down in the vicinity of Tallil, Iraq. Also killed were Chief Warrant Officer 2 Corry A. Edwards, Sgt. Daniel M. Eshbaugh, Sgt. Anthony L. Mason, 1st Sgt. Julio C. Ordonez, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Brady J. Rudolf and 1st Lt. Robert Vallejo II.
Died: September 17, 2008
Slain soldier remembered at funeral
The Associated Press
KINGSTON, Okla. — An Oklahoma soldier who died in Iraq was remembered Saturday as an “all-American boy” who had already served a tour in Iraq and volunteered to go back to the war zone.
Services for Cpl. Michael Eyre Thompson, 23, were held in a crowded school gymnasium in Kingston in southern Oklahoma. A 2003 graduate of Kingston High School, Thompson died on Sept. 18 in a helicopter crash in Iraq that also killed two other Oklahoma National Guard soldiers as well as four soldiers from Texas.
Funeral services have been set for the other two soldiers from Oklahoma as well as a fourth soldier from the state who was killed in Afghanistan.
Staff Sgt. Tracey Friend, one of several people who spoke at Thompson’s funeral, said Thompson believed in the cause he was fighting for and wore it on his shirt sleeve.
“He could make you...