Jeremy R. Wright
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Age: 31
From: Shelbyville, Ind.
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group, Fort Lewis, Wash.
Incident: Army Sgt. Jeremy R. Wright was killed Jan. 3 when his military vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in Asadabad, Afghanistan.
Died: January 03, 2005
Shelby County soldier killed by bomb in Afghanistan
Associated Press
SHELBYVILLE, Ind. — A bombing in Afghanistan killed an Army special forces soldier from central Indiana who was a cross country champion at Wabash College, military officials and family members said.
Sgt. Jeremy Wright, 31, was killed Monday during a patrol when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb near Kabul, the Army Special Forces Command at Fort Bragg, N.C., said in a news release. Two other soldiers were seriously wounded and taken to a military hospital in Germany.
Wright joined the Army in 2002 and was sent to Afghanistan about two months ago. He was a Green Beret stationed at Fort Lewis, Wash.
“He had gone into Special Forces right off the street,” said his stepfather, William Nickel. “The military had always intrigued him.”
Wright, the Indiana 3,200-meter champion in 1992 at Southwestern High School in rural Shelby County, was a...
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We love you, Jer!!!!!!!!!!