
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Sgt. Roger Rowe, a Tennessee National Guardsman killed by a sniper in Iraq earlier this month, will be memorialized Friday.
Rowe, 54, of Bon Aqua, died July 9 during an ambush of a convoy in which he was driving a fuel tanker truck.
Rowe, who served two years in Vietnam and volunteered for the Gulf War but wasn’t called up, was a member of Detachment 1, 771st Maintenance Company in Hohenwald. However, he was serving in Iraq with the 1174th Transportation Company from Dresden and Newbern because of his experience driving a truck.
Rowe had served in an Army medical unit during Vietnam and spent 17 years in the...