Jonathan A. Hughes
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Age: 21
From: Lebanon, Ky.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 623rd Field Artillery Regiment, Kentucky Army National Guard, Campbellsville, Ky.
Incident: Army Spc. Jonathan A. Hughes was killed March 19 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee in Iraq.
Died: March 19, 2005
Kentucky Guardsman killed in Iraq
By Bruce Schreiner
Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ky. — Spc. Jonathan A. Hughes’ infant son clutched a photo of his father Monday, unaware of the grief around him as others mourned his father’s death during a bloody weekend for Kentucky National Guard soldiers in Iraq.
Hughes, 21, of Lebanon, was killed Saturday when his Humvee struck a roadside bomb while he accompanied a U.S. convoy headed to Baghdad International Airport. A fellow Kentucky Guardsman in the same vehicle was wounded.
Three other Kentucky Guard soldiers were wounded in another ambush Sunday. Kentucky Adjutant Gen. Donald C. Storm called it “a very difficult weekend.”
In a shaky voice, Hughes’ high school sweetheart and widow, Sara, called her husband a hero in an emotional tribute while holding their son, Peyton.
“Our son is only 9 months old, but he will always know that his daddy loved him and will be...