David L. Herrera
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Age: 26
From: Oceanside, Calif.
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky.
Incident: Army Sgt. David L. Herrera was killed Jan. 28 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee during combat operations in Baghdad.
Died: January 28, 2006
Two 101st Airborne soldiers killed in separate incidents
Associated Press
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — Two soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division have been killed in separate bombings in Iraq.
Both soldiers — Sgt. David Herrera, of Oceanside, Ca., and Pfc. Brian J. Schoff, of Manchester, Tenn. — belonged to the same company but were conducting separate combat operations at the time of the roadside bombings on Saturday, said Cathy Gramling, a public affairs officer at Fort Campbell.
Both were standing near their military Humvees when improvised explosive devices detonated, according to the Department of Defense. Herrera and Schoff were both assigned to Company D, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat team.
Herrera, 25, joined the Army in 1998 and is survived by his wife, Tonya, and daughter, Emma, of Clarksville, Tenn.
Schoff, 22, is survived by his mother, Cathy Odle, of Manchester, Tenn.,...
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Prayers & Messages
I Did Not Die
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow;
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain;
I am the gentle Autumn’s rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush.
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft star that shines at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there;
I did not die.
- Anon -