Eric W. Morris
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Age: 31
From: Sparks, Nev.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash.
Incident: Army Sgt. Eric W. Morris was killed April 28 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Stryker military vehicle in Tal Afar, Iraq. Also
Died: April 28, 2005
Fort Lewis soldier killed in Iraq bombing
Associated Press
RENO, Nev. — The latest Nevada soldier killed in Iraq re-enlisted in the Army because of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, his family said.
Sgt. Eric W. Morris, 31, of Sparks, was one of four troops killed in Iraq on Thursday when a homemade bomb exploded near their Stryker military vehicle.
Morris attended Reed High School in Sparks in 1992 and 1993. He was in Iraq for 17 months and then was back home for only two months before his unit deployed to Iraq in September for a second tour, his sister, Tina Farley, said.
Morris left the Army the first time in 2001, Farley said. But she said he told her after the Sept. 11 attacks that he couldn’t stand by without doing something to make sure such an attack never happened again.
“He said, ‘You know what? I’m not going to tolerate (Sept. 11). I’m going back in,”’ she told the Reno...