Jonathan W. Edds
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Age: 24
From: White Pigeon, Mich.
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Ga.
Incident: Army 1st Lt. Jonathan W. Edds died Aug. 17 in Baghdad of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked his vehicle using an improvised explosive device and small-arms fire.
Died: August 17, 2007
Insurgent attack in Baghdad leaves Auburn student a widow
The Associated Press
AUBURN, Ala. — Laura Edds, an Auburn University pharmacy student whose husband was five months into a 15-month deployment to Iraq, knew something horrible had happened as soon as the car pulled up to her home.
“When the chaplain and an Army officer approached the front door, I knew that there was no other reason for them to be there,” she said.
Eads learned her husband, 1st Lt. Jonathan W. Edds, 24, was killed in Baghdad on Aug. 17 when the platoon he was leading was attacked by insurgents with an improvised explosive and gunfire.
“Jon is gone and my life is completely altered,” Edds told the Opelika-Auburn News in a story Sept. 4. “Some days it’s difficult to even make yourself get out of bed, but I trust in God and that he knows that there is more in life for me in the...