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Zachary R Clouser
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Name: Army Spc. Zachary R. Clouser
Age: 19
From: Dover, Pa.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Schweinfurt, Germany
Incident: Army Spc. Zachary R. Clouser died July 18 in Adhamiyah, Iraq, of wounds sustained when his vehicle was attacked by enemy forces using an improvised explosive device and small-arms fire. Also killed were Sgt. 1st Class Luis E. Gutierrez-Rosales, Spc. Richard Gilmore III and Spc. Daniel E. Gomez.
Died: July 18, 2007
Pa. soldier, 19, killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
Age: 19
From: Dover, Pa.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Schweinfurt, Germany
Incident: Army Spc. Zachary R. Clouser died July 18 in Adhamiyah, Iraq, of wounds sustained when his vehicle was attacked by enemy forces using an improvised explosive device and small-arms fire. Also killed were Sgt. 1st Class Luis E. Gutierrez-Rosales, Spc. Richard Gilmore III and Spc. Daniel E. Gomez.
Died: July 18, 2007
Pa. soldier, 19, killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
DOVER, Pa. — A 19-year-old Pennsylvania soldier was killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb, according to his mother.
Pfc. Zachary Clouser, of Dover Township, who died July 18, had been Iraq for nearly a year and would have turned 20 in a couple of weeks.
“Zachary was the biggest prankster, jokester, anything he could do to get anybody to smile,” his mother, Deb Etheridge, told WPMT-TV in Harrisburg on Friday.
Clouser joined the Army soon after graduating from Dover Area High School in 2005. He came back to visit the school while on leave in the spring, principal Joel Riedel said.
“This is a very, very sad thing. We were stunned yesterday when
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the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Schweinfurt, Germany;
Incident
Army Spc. Zachary R. Clouser died July 18 in Adhamiyah, Iraq, of wounds sustained when his vehicle was attacked by enemy forces using an improvised explosive device and small-arms fire. Also killed were Sgt. 1st Class Luis E. Gutierrez-Rosales, Spc. Richard Gilmore III and Spc. Daniel E. Gomez.
Prayers & Messages
Zachary R Clouser
2008-05-25
Your sacrifice will remain in our hearts for a lifetime,
with intense gratitude. May God bless you and your family.
Rest Safely and Securely in God's Loving Arms.
We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heros never dies.
Zachary R Clouser
2008-04-09
May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.