Name:
Kentucky Army National Guard Sgt. Darrin K. Potter
Age:
24
From:
Louisville, Ky.
Assigned to
the 223rd Military Police Company, Army National Guard, Louisville, Ky.
Incident:
Kentucky Army National Guard Sgt. Darrin K. Potter was killed Sept. 29 when his vehicle left a road and went into a canal during a mission to search an area near Abu Ghraib Prison, outside Baghdad, Iraq.
Died:
September
29, 2003
Family, friends mourn guardsman killed in Iraq
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Bagpipes and a solemn drumbeat rang through Southeast Christian Church as family, friends and comrades gathered Oct 8 to remember the first Kentucky Army National Guardsman to die in combat since Vietnam.
Sgt. Darrin K. Potter, 24, was “a very compassionate, loving, selfless person who always had a calm demeanor,” Mike Koenig, a friend and Louisville police officer, said during the funeral.
One by one, military and police officers stood before Potter’s casket and bade him farewell with slow salutes after the service that drew about 300 mourners.
Potter wanted to be a police officer — his dream since high school — when he was deployed with...
Occupation
the 223rd Military Police Company, Army National Guard, Louisville, Ky.
Incident
Kentucky Army National Guard Sgt. Darrin K. Potter was killed Sept. 29 when his vehicle left a road and went into a canal during a mission to search an area near Abu Ghraib Prison, outside Baghdad, Iraq.