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Leonard M Cowherd
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Name: Army 2nd Lt. Leonard M. Cowherd
Age: 22
From: Culpeper, Va.
Assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 37th Armor Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Friedberg, Germany
Incident: Army 2nd Lt. Leonard M. Cowherd was killed May 16 by sniper and rocket-propelled-grenade fire while securing a building near the Mukhayam Mosque in Karbala, Iraq.
Died: May 16, 2004
Virginia soldier killed in Iraq sniper attack
Associated Press
Age: 22
From: Culpeper, Va.
Assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 37th Armor Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Friedberg, Germany
Incident: Army 2nd Lt. Leonard M. Cowherd was killed May 16 by sniper and rocket-propelled-grenade fire while securing a building near the Mukhayam Mosque in Karbala, Iraq.
Died: May 16, 2004
Virginia soldier killed in Iraq sniper attack
Associated Press
CULPEPER, Va. — A soldier from Culpeper was fatally shot Sunday by an Iraqi sniper during a raid on a building holding insurgents near the Mukhayam Mosque, the Department of Defense said.
Second Lt. Leonard M. Cowherd Jr., 23, was killed in Karbala, about 68 miles southwest of Baghdad, defense officials said Monday.
The Defense Department said Cowherd also received fire from rocket propelled grenades.
“From what I’ve been told, they had recently been moved from Baghdad Island to an area called the Green Zone,” his father, Lenny Cowherd, told the Culpeper Star-Exponent. “The feeling was he would be safer in the Green Zone; however, the catch was his platoon...
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Company C, 1st Battalion, 37th Armor Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Friedberg, Germany
Incident
Army 2nd Lt. Leonard M. Cowherd was killed May 16 by sniper and rocket-propelled-grenade fire while securing a building near the Mukhayam Mosque in Karbala, Iraq.
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Leonard M Cowherd
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.