
LITTLE ROCK — A ninth member of the Arkansas-based 39th Infantry Brigade has been killed in action since its arrival in Iraq this spring, the soldier’s mother told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Staff Sgt. Troy “Leon” Miranda, 44, of Little Rock, was the 12th Arkansan to die in combat in Iraq since the March 2003 start of the war.
“He always tried to do the right thing,” said his mother, Bobby Miranda, of Wickes. “He always did his job whether he wanted to do it or not.”
Bobby Miranda said another son, 37-year-old Phillip, called her husband and her, Carlos, from Baghdad on Wednesday afternoon with the news
“(Leon) was on foot patrol in Baghdad when they...