Jimmy D. Buie
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Age: 43
From: Floral, Ark.
Assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 153rd Infantry Regiment, 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Arkansas Army National Guard, Fordyce, Ark.
Incident: Army Spc. Jimmy D. Buie was killed Jan. 4 when an improvised explosive devise detonated near his military vehicle in Taji, Iraq. Also
Died: January 04, 2005
Arkansas National Guardsman killed in Iraq bombing
By Angelia Roberts
Batesville Daily Guard / Associated Press
FLORAL, Ark. — Lisa Buie knew when she arrived home Tuesday night that the news was not good. Two military men, one of them a chaplain, were there to tell her that her husband had been killed in Iraq.
“I’ve been in the military before ... seen enough movies,” she said.
Jimmy Buie, 43, was a member of the Arkansas National Guard and was one of three Arkansas soldiers killed when an improvised bomb exploded along a roadside.
“He had went into the military after high school and gotten out. He thought about it for a while and then rejoined in August,” Buie said. In September, he spent a month training at Fort Hood, Texas, and the couple spent 3½ days together in October.
“He was very good at calling. I talked with him Sunday evening. Every time I talked with him he was so upbeat,” she...
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My condolences to your family. Rest in peace.