Donald Ralph Walters
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Age: 33
From: Salem, Ore.
Assigned to the 507th Maintenance Company, Fort Bliss, Texas captured by Iraqi fighters in an ambush near Nasiriyah, Iraq, and later executed. At the time, the Defense Department said Walters was
Incident: Army Sgt. Donald Ralph Walters was killed in the ambush. Officials revised that statement on May 27, 2004.
Died: March 23, 2003
Army awards Silver Star to slain soldier from Fort Bliss
Associated Press
FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — A year after he was buried, the Army honored Sgt. Donald Walters on Monday with the Silver Star for the actions in Iraq that cost him his life.
Walters, 33, formerly of Kansas City, Mo., received the commendation posthumously during a ceremony at Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery, where he is buried. Walters was a member of the 507th Maintenance Company from Fort Bliss, Texas, that was ambushed in southern Iraq on March 23, 2003.
Lt. Gen. William S. Wallace, who served in Iraq as the commanding general of the Army’s V Corps, presented the Silver Star to Walters’ widow, Stacie, and his mother, Arlene Walters, who has sought a better accounting of her son’s death to reflect his actions.
In the ambush, which occurred just