Keith A. Bennett
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Age: 32
From: Holtwood, Pa.
Assigned to the 28th Military Police Company, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, Pennsylvania Army National Guard, Johnstown, Pa.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Keith A. Bennett was killed Dec. 11 by a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device in Ramadi, Iraq.
Died: December 11, 2005
Pa. Guardsman killed in car bombing
Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania National Guardsman was killed Sunday when an explosives-packed car he had stopped from entering a military base blew up, officials said.
Sgt. Keith A. Bennett, 32, was working a checkpoint at a base near Ramadi when the vehicle tried to enter, in what officials called an attempt to kill dozens of Iraqi policemen and U.S. Marine Corps military police.
Bennett was walking toward the stopped vehicle when it detonated, National Guard officials said Tuesday.
Bennett, of Holtwood, joined the National Guard in 1997 because he thought the experience would enable him to fulfill his goal of becoming a state police trooper, said his sister, Tina Daley.
He was a full-time member of the National Guard — a military policeman who patrolled Fort Indiantown Gap — when he volunteered to go to Iraq, she said.
“He’s always been a...
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Prayers & Messages
till the shadows lengthen,
and the evening comes,
and the busy world is hushed,
and the fever of life is over
and our work is done.
Then in his mercy
may he give us a safe lodging,
and holy rest and peace at the last.
Amen.
My sincere heartfelt condolences to Keith's family