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Kenneth Michael Ballard
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Name: Army 1st Lt. Kenneth Michael Ballard
Age: 26
From: Mountain View, Calif.
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 37th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division, from Friedberg, Germany
Incident: Army 1st Lt. Kenneth Michael Ballard was killed May 30 during a firefight with insurgents in Najaf, Iraq.
Died: May 30, 2004
Calif. mother remembers son killed in Iraq
Associated Press
Age: 26
From: Mountain View, Calif.
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 37th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division, from Friedberg, Germany
Incident: Army 1st Lt. Kenneth Michael Ballard was killed May 30 during a firefight with insurgents in Najaf, Iraq.
Died: May 30, 2004
Calif. mother remembers son killed in Iraq
Associated Press
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — A 26-year-old Army officer had been scheduled to return from Iraq eight days before he was killed by small arms fire, his single mother said of her only child.
Lt. Ken Ballard, a tank platoon leader, died May 30 in Najaf, where U.S. troops had halted offensive operations Thursday as peace talks continued with Shiite militia leaders, said Karen Meredith, Ballard’s mother.
In one of the last e-mails Meredith received from Iraq, her son wrote, “Don’t worry about us. We know what we’re doing.”
Ballard originally had been scheduled to return from a little more than a year in Iraq on May 22, but Meredith said she rescheduled his “welcome home”...
Occupation
the 2nd Battalion, 37th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division, from Friedberg, Germany
Incident
Army 1st Lt. Kenneth Michael Ballard was killed May 30 during a firefight with insurgents in Najaf, Iraq.
Prayers & Messages
Kenneth Michael Ballard
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.