Delmar White
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Age: 37
From: Wallins, Ky.
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery, Kentucky Army National Guard, Carrollton, Ky.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Delmar White died Sept. 2 in Baghdad of wounds sustained from an improvised explosive device.
Died: September 02, 2007
Kentucky guardsman killed by roadside bomb in Iraq
The Associated Press
FRANKFORT, Ky. — A Kentucky National Guardsman from Lexington was killed and three others were injured when a roadside bomb exploded while they were escorting a convoy in Iraq, the military said Sept. 3.
Staff Sgt. Delmar White, 37, of Lexington died Sept. 2 during the mission in Baghdad, said Maj. Gen. Donald C. Storm, adjutant general for Kentucky.
“The death of Staff Sergeant White is a terrible loss for the entire Kentucky National Guard family,” Storm said in a statement. “Words cannot describe the grief that we all feel at this time.”
White died doing what he loved, said his wife, Michelle.
“He went out a hero,” she told the Lexington Herald-Leader on Sept. 3. “He was a hero before he went to Iraq, in my book.”
The names of the three injured soldiers were not released,...