Terry W Hemingway
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Age: 39
From: Willingboro, N.J.
Assigned to C Company, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, Ft. Benning, Ga.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Terry W. Hemingway was killed when a car exploded next to his Bradley Fighting Vehicle while traveling down a street in Iraq.
Died: April 10, 2003
He was a happy-go-lucky, “ordinary guy” who loved his family and worked diligently to be a good soldier. He had been deployed with the Army to several of the world’s hot spots and had cheated death at least once before.
That’s how relatives describe Terry Hemingway, 39, who was killed April 10 when a car exploded near his Bradley fighting vehicle. Family members say the Army told them it was a suicide attack at a checkpoint in Baghdad.
The 19-year veteran, who planned to retire after 20 years, previously was stationed in Panama, Germany and Korea, said his stepfather, Evine Shannon. On a 1988 trip home from Germany, he had been booked on — but missed taking — Pan Am Flight 103, which was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland.
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