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Daniel Michael Shepherd
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Name: Army Sgt. Daniel Michael Shepherd
Age: 23
From: Elyria, Ohio
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Riley, Kan.
Incident: Army Sgt. Daniel Michael Shepherd was killed Aug. 15 when his M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in Ramadi, Iraq.
Died: August 15, 2004
Ohio soldier killed in Iraq never saw infant son
Associated Press
Age: 23
From: Elyria, Ohio
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Riley, Kan.
Incident: Army Sgt. Daniel Michael Shepherd was killed Aug. 15 when his M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in Ramadi, Iraq.
Died: August 15, 2004
Ohio soldier killed in Iraq never saw infant son
Associated Press
ELYRIA, Ohio — A soldier from Ohio, killed by a homemade bomb in Iraq, never got to see his son, who friends say looks just like his father.
Sgt. Daniel Michael Shepherd, 23, died Sunday in Ramadi, Iraq, after his M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle hit a homemade bomb, U.S. Army spokeswoman Martha Rudd said. He served with the Army’s 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, and was based in Fort Riley, Kan.
His unit was due home in less than a month.
Shepherd enlisted in the Army after graduating from high school in 2000 and had been stationed at Fort Riley since December 2000. He was deployed in September 2003.
Shepherd was supposed to get out of the...
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the 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Riley, Kan.
Incident
Army Sgt. Daniel Michael Shepherd was killed Aug. 15 when his M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in Ramadi, Iraq.
Prayers & Messages
Daniel Michael Shepherd
2008-04-09
May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.