James A. Sherrill
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Age: 27
From: Ekron, Ky.
Assigned to the 2113th Transportation Company, Kentucky Army National Guard, Paducah, Ky.
Incident: Army Sgt. James A. Sherrill was killed April 3 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle in Bayji, Iraq.
Died: April 03, 2005
Family, friends mourn Kentuckian killed in Iraq
By Bruce Schreiner
Associated Press
EKRON, Ky. — A Kentucky National Guard soldier killed in Iraq when a bomb exploded near his military vehicle was buried with full military honors in a church cemetery.
Sgt. James A. Sherrill, 27, was the fifth Kentucky Guardsman killed in Iraq since the war began more than two years ago, and the third within a month to die. Sherrill was part of the 2113th Transportation Company, based in Paducah, and was killed in Bayji, Iraq, in the Sunni Triangle, a stronghold of Iraq’s insurgency.
In the days afterward, another Kentucky Guardsman in Iraq wrote to family and co-workers back home that members of their unit were driving old trucks with inadequate armor and ordinary glass. Staff Sgt. Brad Rogers, assigned to the same unit as Sherrill, said the insufficient protections might have contributed to Sherrill’s death.
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