Leonard W. Adams
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Age: 42
From: Mooresville, N.C.
Assigned to the 105th Military Police Battalion, 18th Military Police Brigade, North Carolina Army National Guard, Asheville, N.C.
Incident: Army Sgt. Leonard W. Adams died Jan. 24 of non-combat-related injuries at Camp Bucca, Iraq.
Died: January 24, 2005
Guardsman dies of apparent heart attack in Iraq
Associated Press
MOORESVILLE, N.C. — A 42-year-old Mooresville man who was almost four months into his tour in Iraq has died after apparently suffering a heart attack, his family said.
Leonard Adams, a former body builder and competitive weightlifter, was assigned to the Army National Guard’s 105th Military Police Battalion, 18th Military Police Brigade, out of Asheville, according to the Department of Defense.
Adams had served in the reserves for 22 years and already passed his retirement mark, said Jana Adams, his ex-wife who was married to him for 14 years.
He had never been deployed overseas until Oct. 6, when he went to work at Camp Bucca, a detention center.
“I didn’t want him to go. Nobody wanted him to go,” Jana Adams said. “He said it was time to earn the pay he’d earned all those years.”
Adams, the father of two biological children and one...
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Prayers & Messages
I am sorry "you went" in a way and glad "you went" in another. You died doing what you believed in...even if I don't. God bless you and rest in peace on that. You could have gone anywhere...but you crossed over where you wanted to be.
May you rest in peace and may your family be comforted in that you were doing what you wanted.
Sincerely,
Mary