Saburant Parker
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Age: 43
From: Foxworth, Miss.
Assigned to C Company, 1st Battalion, 155th Infantry Regiment, Mississippi Army National Guard, Biloxi, Miss.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Saburant Parker was killed May 23 when his military vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device in Haswa, Iraq. Also
Died: May 23, 2005
Family of fallen soldier receives his medals
Associated Press
HATTIESBURG, Miss. — The family of Sgt. 1st Class Saburant “Sabe” Parker will have three medals as a legacy of his heroism.
Maj. Gen. Harold A. Cross, the Mississippi National Guard’s adjutant general, gave Parker’s family the Mississippi Medal of Valor, the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart during a Saturday memorial service at Hurricane Creek Baptist Church in Hattiesburg.
“They will remind this nation, this state and this community that we have a hero in our midst,” Cross said at the service attended by about 100 people, including Parker’s wife, children, other family, friends and military.
Parker, who was posthumously promoted to sergeant first class, and three other soldiers in the 155th Brigade Combat Team were killed May 23 when a bomb exploded beside their Humvee near Haswa, Iraq. They were assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 155th...