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Richard S Eaton Jr
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Name: Army Staff Sgt. Richard S. Eaton Jr.
Age: 37
From: Guilford, Conn.
Assigned to the 323rd Military Intelligence Battalion, Army Reserve, based at Fort Meade, Md. died Aug. 12 in Ramadi, Iraq. A fellow soldier tried to wake Eaton and noticed he was not breathing.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Richard S. Eaton Jr. was killed
Died: August 12, 2003
Guilford family questions death of son in Iraq
Associated Press
Age: 37
From: Guilford, Conn.
Assigned to the 323rd Military Intelligence Battalion, Army Reserve, based at Fort Meade, Md. died Aug. 12 in Ramadi, Iraq. A fellow soldier tried to wake Eaton and noticed he was not breathing.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Richard S. Eaton Jr. was killed
Died: August 12, 2003
Guilford family questions death of son in Iraq
Associated Press
GUILFORD, Conn. — The parents of an Army counterintelligence analyst who died in Iraq are questioning whether their son’s death was unavoidable.
Staff Sgt. Richard Eaton Jr., a counterintelligence analyst, received several intravenous applications of fluids after a 24-hour firefight in 110-degree weather and was sent back to his barracks the night of Aug. 9.
He was found dead the next morning.
The Army mixed up Eaton’s medical records, and failed to monitor Eaton while he got intravenous fluids, said his father, Richard Eaton.
“It will always leave the question of whether or not it was necessary that he died. On that basis alone, it was not...
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the 323rd Military Intelligence Battalion, Army Reserve, based at Fort Meade, Md.
Incident
Army Staff Sgt. Richard S. Eaton Jr. died Aug. 12 in Ramadi, Iraq. A fellow soldier tried to wake Eaton and noticed he was not breathing.
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Richard S Eaton Jr
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.