Timothy E Price
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Age: 25
From: Midlothian, Va.
Assigned to the 127th Military Police Company, 709th Military Police Battalion, 18th Military Police Brigade, V Corps, Hanau, Germany
Incident: Army 1st Lt. Timothy E. Price was killed Sept. 7 by small-arms fire in Baghdad.
Died: September 07, 2004
When Timothy E. Price came back from Iraq after his first tour, he went to Virginia Tech and urged students to follow the virtues engraved on the pylons at the campus war memorial: brotherhood, honor, leadership, sacrifice and duty. "He was a guy who cared about his people and who led by example," said retired Air Force Col. Rock Roszak. Price, 25, of Midlothian, Va., died Sept. 7 when he came under small-arms attack in Baghdad. He was based in Germany and was serving his second tour of duty in Iraq. Price graduated from Virginia Tech in 2001 with a degree in forestry. "We were blessed to have him for a son, and we are crushed to have lost him," said his father, John. "I can't begin to list all the plans that we had made that will never come to...