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Esau G Patterson Jr
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Name: Army Staff Sgt. Esau G. Patterson Jr.
Age: 25
From: Ridgeland, S.C.
Assigned to 4th Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Baumholder, Germany one of eight soldiers
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Esau G. Patterson Jr. was killed April 29 by a car bomb as his unit was doing a dismounted improvised-explosive device-sweep in Baghdad.
Died: April 29, 2004
Ridgeland soldier remembered fondly
Associated Press
Age: 25
From: Ridgeland, S.C.
Assigned to 4th Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Baumholder, Germany one of eight soldiers
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Esau G. Patterson Jr. was killed April 29 by a car bomb as his unit was doing a dismounted improvised-explosive device-sweep in Baghdad.
Died: April 29, 2004
Ridgeland soldier remembered fondly
Associated Press
RIDGELAND, S.C. — About 500 people remembered Esau G. Patterson as a brave soldier, a smiling son and a role model for young people everywhere.
Patterson, a 25-year-old Army staff sergeant, was killed in Iraq with seven others on April 29. He was eulogized and laid to rest on May 10, his birthday.
“Ever since my son was a little boy,” Esau Patterson Sr. said in The Carolina Morning News, “I’ve enjoyed the smiles that came off his face. Everyday he surprised me. He was respectable, to his parents and all parents. He made me proud.”
At Patterson’s gravesite, state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, D-Ridgeland, gave a short prayer, thanking God “for our dear...
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4th Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Baumholder, Germany one of eight soldiers
Incident
Army Staff Sgt. Esau G. Patterson Jr. was killed April 29 by a car bomb as his unit was doing a dismounted improvised-explosive device-sweep in Baghdad.
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Esau G Patterson Jr
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.