Name:
Army Cpl. Robert T. McDavid
Age:
29
From:
Starkville, Miss.;
Assigned to
the 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.;
Incident:
Army Cpl. Robert T. McDavid died March 10 in Baghdad of wounds sustained when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device. Also killed were Staff Sgt. Ernesto G. Cimarrusti, Staff Sgt. David D. Julian, Sgt. 1st. Class Shawn M. Suzch and Cpl. Scott A. McIntosh.
Died:
March
10, 2008
Hundreds line Starkville street to honor fallen soldier
The Associated Press
STARKVILLE, Miss. — Hundreds of residents, many holding up American flags, gathered along Main Street in this college town Wednesday, giving a final salute to a local soldier killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq.
The funeral for Army Cpl. Robert Taylor McDavid III fell on the same day as the fifth anniversary of the U.S. war in Iraq.
Armando De La Cruz of Starkville, watching as the funeral procession slowly passed on the way to Oddfellows Cemetery, said his family had lived near Robert and Jean Alice McDavid and he had seen their son grow up.
“He was a good kid. Oh, you know, a normal kid,” De La Cruz told The.
Occupation
the 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.;
Incident
Army Cpl. Robert T. McDavid died March 10 in Baghdad of wounds sustained when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device. Also killed were Staff Sgt. Ernesto G. Cimarrusti, Staff Sgt. David D. Julian, Sgt. 1st. Class Shawn M. Suzch and Cpl. Scott A. McIntosh.