Lunsford B Brown II
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Age: 27
From: Creedmore, N.C.
Assigned to A Company, 302nd Military Intelligence Battalion, Patton Barracks, Germany
Incident: Army Spc. Lunsford B. Brown II was killed Sept. 20 in a mortar attack in Abu Ghraib, Iraq.
Died: September 20, 2003
Spc. Lunsford B. Brown II may have been a bit unpolished as a high school football player, but his hard work helped his team in Henderson, N.C., win the conference championship.
“He was raw, since he hadn’t played much,” said coach Randy Long. “But he was a strong guy, and he moved well and ended up being a contributor to the team as a defensive lineman.” He also made an impression in other ways: “I vividly remember him coming to the locker room with his ROTC uniform on to get dressed for practice,” Long said.
Brown, 27, was killed Sept. 20 when mortars struck an Iraqi prison outside Baghdad. He was based in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Brown’s younger brother, Jason, is the star center for the University of North Carolina’s football team. Long said Lunsford...