Damion G. Campbell
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Age: 23
From: Baltimore
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 508th Infantry Regiment, Vicenza, Italy
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Damion G. Campbell was killed Aug. 26 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee during a combat patrol in Khayr Kot, Afghanistan.
Died: August 26, 2005
They traveled the same path, went to the same high school, participated in JROTC, enlisted in the Army and within two weeks became Baltimore’s latest casualties of war.
Staff Sgt. Damion Garland Campbell, 23, of Baltimore, was killed in Khayr Kot, Afghanistan, when a bomb exploded near his vehicle during combat patrol.
Campbell graduated from Forest Park High School in 2000, as did Army Spc. Toccara Green, 23, of Rosedale, who was killed Aug. 14 in Iraq.
They were described as leaders, outgoing, fun-loving and competitive by those who knew them.
Loretta Breese, Forest Park High School principal, was at the school Sunday evening getting ready for the first day of classes when she got a call from her sister-in-law telling her she lost another student.
“I just went limp. I just could not believe this,” said Breese, who has been the principal for 12 years and remembers both students very well. “I became really emotionally ill. I said...