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Jonathan V Hamm
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Name: Army Pfc. Jonathan V. Hamm
Age: 20
From: Baltimore
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash.
Incident: Army Pfc. Jonathan V. Hamm died May 17 in Baghdad, of wounds sustained when his forward operating base received indirect enemy fire.
Died: May 17, 2007
Baltimore soldier killed in Baghdad
The Associated Press
Age: 20
From: Baltimore
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash.
Incident: Army Pfc. Jonathan V. Hamm died May 17 in Baghdad, of wounds sustained when his forward operating base received indirect enemy fire.
Died: May 17, 2007
Baltimore soldier killed in Baghdad
The Associated Press
BALTIMORE — A 20-year-old West Baltimore man whose mother died of cancer just before his deployment was killed in Iraq by indirect enemy fire, according to the Defense Department and his relatives.
Pfc. Jonathan V. Hamm’s aunt, Eleanor S. Swan, said he left for Kuwait 10 days after the funeral of his mother. Frances S. McCullough, 52, died in February from breast cancer.
His father died in 2000 of liver failure, which Swan said sent the boy into a destructive lifestyle for a time. Another aunt, retired city police officer Leah Hamm, told The (Baltimore) Sun he was caught in a “spiral of not going to class and hanging with the wrong people.”
But she said she had an...
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the 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash.;
Incident
Army Pfc. Jonathan V. Hamm died May 17 in Baghdad, of wounds sustained when his forward operating base received indirect enemy fire.
Prayers & Messages
Jonathan V Hamm
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.