David L. Rice
Profile
Age: 22
From: Sioux City, Iowa
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.
Incident: Army Sgt. David L. Rice died April 26 in Balad, Iraq, of injuries sustained in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, when his Humvee rolled over.
Died: April 26, 2005
Sioux City soldier killed in Iraq
By Mike Wilson
Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — An Iowa soldier serving his second tour in Iraq was killed when a rocket-propelled grenade struck his vehicle, family members said Tuesday.
Sgt. David Rice, 22, of Sioux City, was killed Monday, northeast of Baghdad, said his mother, Laurinda Finken. He was a fire support specialist with the Army, based out of Fort Riley, Kan., his mother said.
Rice, a 2001 graduate of Sioux City East High School, is the 29th Iowa soldier to be killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Finken said she learned of her son’s death Tuesday morning when two military officials came to her workplace.
“My boss came and got me and took me into the office and they told me,” Finken said. “Today’s been a pretty big blur.”
It was her son’s second tour in Iraq, said Finken, who last saw Rice before he was deployed in January.
She said she...
Occupation
Incident
Prayers & Messages
Rest in peace