Zachariah W Long
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Age: 20
From: Milton, Pa.
Assigned to the 519th Military Intelligence Battalion, Fort Bragg, N.C.
Incident: Army Spc. Zachariah W. Long was killed in a vehicle accident near Mosul, Iraq.
Died: May 30, 2003
Spcs. Zachiariah W. Long, Michael T. Gleason and Kyle A. Griffin were among the soldiers traveling from Mosul to Tikrit in a three-vehicle convoy — two Humvees and a light medium tactical vehicle — during a storm May 30. A civilian vehicle dodged a pothole, causing the Humvees to swerve. There was not enough stopping distance between the vehicles, and the LMTV swerved off the road and turned over, causing the death of three soldiers.
Milking cattle wasn’t one of Spc. Zachariah Long’s regular tasks in the Army, but that didn’t stop him from showing two comrades how it’s done.
“His platoon leader called us and said that a cow came in, and he taught his two buddies,” said Mandy Long, the soldier’s older sister. “That was just Zach — he was always...