Adam Malson
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Age: 23
From: Rochester Hills, Mich.
Assigned to the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, Fort Drum, N.Y.
Incident: Army 1st Lt. Adam Malson was killed Feb. 19 when an improvised explosive device detonated while he was on patrol in Baghdad.
Died: February 19, 2005
Rochester Hills native dies in Iraq suicide blast
Associated Press
DETROIT — An Army lieutenant from suburban Detroit who was assisting an injured Iraqi woman was killed by a suicide bomber.
First Lt. Adam Malson, 23, of Rochester Hills, died Saturday while on patrol in Baghdad, the Department of Defense said.
A series of attacks Friday and Saturday, including eight suicide bombings, killed 91 people and injured dozens as Iraqi Shiites commemorated the seventh century death of a leader of their Muslim sect.
Malson was assigned to the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, based at Fort Drum, N.Y. His parents, Ben and Debra Malson, said they were told Malson had stopped to help an injured Iraqi woman near a Shiite mosque when he and an Iraqi translator were killed. The woman survived.
“I really think his compassion overcame him,” Ben Malson told the Detroit Free Press on Sunday. “He didn’t have to do that. He...