Jeremy E. Ray
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Age: 26
From: Houston
Assigned to the 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Hood, Texas
Incident: Army 1st Lt. Jeremy E. Ray died Dec. 20 in Kanaan, Iraq, of wounds sustained when an enemy attacked using an explosive device.
Died: December 20, 2007
Houston soldier killed by suicide bomber
The Associated Press
HOUSTON — A Houston soldier killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq is being remembered as a quiet man who loved the outdoors and playing his guitar.
1st Lt. Jeremy E. Ray, 26, died Dec. 20 in Kanaan when a man wearing an explosives vest blew himself up while U.S. soldiers were doing a security check at a city council meeting.
“He was a good guy,” 1st Lt. Charlie Huey, 26, who is stationed at Fort Hood with the field artillery unit, said in a story in the Dec. 22 online edition of the Houston Chronicle. “He played his guitar a lot. He was kind of a quiet guy, the type of guy you’d want to hang out with.”
Ray was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, at Fort Hood.
Ray graduated from Texas A&M University in 2006. He deployed to Iraq on Nov. 8.
“We received three e-mails from him...