Alex R. Jimenez
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Age: 25
From: Lawrence, Mass.
Assigned to the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y. was captured May 12, 2007 by enemy forces in Jurf es Sakhr, Iraq, when his unit was attacked by insurgents using automatic fire and explosives. His body was recovered July 8, 2008 in Iraq. Also
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Alex R. Jimenez was killed were Spc. Byron J. Fouty, Pfc. Joseph J. Anzack, Jr., Sgt. 1st Class James D. Connell, Jr., Pfc. Daniel W. Courneya, Cpl. Christopher E. Murphy and Sgt. Anthony J. Schober.
Died: July 08, 2008
Bodies of 2 missing soldiers found in Iraq
By Gina Cavallaro
Staff writer
Andy Jimenez went home to the Dominican Republic in April to visit the Basilica of Our Lady of Altagracia in Higuey. He wanted to pray for his son, Sgt. Alex Jimenez, who had disappeared after an attack on his unit’s position in Iraq on May 12, 2007.
In the attack on a remote road about 12 miles southwest of Baghdad, six soldiers and four Iraqis were killed and the body of a seventh soldier, Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr., was found floating in the Euphrates River 11 days later.
Almost a year later, on the day Alex would have turned 26, his father, who lives in Lawrence, Mass., held out for good news.
“Hopefully Alex will come home so I can take him to the basilica, too,” Andy Jimenez told Army Times in a phone call during that visit.
Alex Jimenez will now be coming home.
On July 8, soldiers in Iraq recovered...