Clay P. Farr
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Age: 21
From: Bakersfield, Calif.
Assigned to the 1st Squadron, 71st Cavalry, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.
Incident: Army Spc. Clay P. Farr was killed Feb. 26 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee during patrol operations in Baghdad. Also
Died: February 26, 2006
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Two Fort Drum soldiers killed by roadside bomb in Iraq
FORT DRUM, N.Y. — Two soldiers from Fort Drum were killed in Iraq when a roadside bomb went off near their patrol vehicle, the military said Wednesday.
Spc. Clay Farr, 21, of Bakersfield, Calif., and Spc. Joshua Humble, 21, of Appleton, Maine, died Sunday in Baghdad, according to the Defense Department.
The cavalry scouts were assigned to the 1st Squadron, 71st Cavalry, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division. They both joined the Army in January 2004 and deployed to Iraq in August, Fort Drum said in a statement.
Shortly after Farr enlisted, his 16-year-old fiancee was killed in a car accident. That didn’t stop him from delaying his training, his family said.
“He loved defending his country. He was very patriotic,” his father Patrick Farr told The Bakersfield Californian. “When the war first started, he was in high school....
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Prayers & Messages
through trying times and tears
Our love and pride for this young man,
have grown throughout the years
Although he's taken from us, and our hearts
are sad and torn
We'll meet again in paradise, when GOD's will has been done ...
Silver Farr
Proud Mother
Thank you for your courage and your sacrifice. May you rest in peace. I offer this condolence to comfort and remind your family and friends that you are still with us and will always be....joyfully flying through the universe now.
I Did Not Die
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow;
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain;
I am the gentle Autumn’s rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush.
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft star that shines at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there;
I did not die.
- Anon -