Clint D. Ferrin
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Age: 31
From: Picayune, Miss.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 504th Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Clint D. Ferrin was killed March 13 when an improvised explosive device struck his military vehicle in Baghdad. Also
Died: March 13, 2004
Slain soldier buried, awarded three posthumous medals
Associated Press
NORTH OGDEN, Utah — With 20 fellow members of the 82nd Airborne in attendance, Sgt. 1st Class Clint D. Ferrin was buried at Ben Lomond Cemetery.
Ferrin, 31, a native of the Ogden area, died with three other soldiers when their Humvee hit a roadside bomb in Baghdad.
At the cemetery Tuesday, Ferrin was given a 21-gun salute. Flags draping his casket were presented to his wife, Melinda Ferrin, and his mother, Rosemary Ferrin, as about 100 family members and friends gathered.
During funeral services earlier in the day, Ferrin, who had two children, Zachary, 6, and Madison, 3, was eulogized as a kind, devout and compassionate man who loved his family and enjoyed his work.
“He loved living,” said Robert Wood, area president for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “This was a man who exuded life.... He loved his country, his family,...