Daniel Torres
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Age: 23
From: Fort Worth, Texas
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.
Incident: Army Sgt. Daniel Torres was killed Feb. 4 when an improvised explosive device hit his vehicle in Bayji, Iraq. Also
Died: February 04, 2005
Soldier killed in Iraq after learning he was going to be a dad
Associated Press
FORT WORTH, Texas — Just a week after finding out that he would become a father, Army Sgt. Daniel Torres of Fort Worth was killed in Iraq when a roadside bomb hit his vehicle.
“He said he would pray for me and the baby every night,” said his girlfriend, Sofia Maldonado, who is five weeks pregnant. “I knew that he was going to be with me forever.”
Army officials told Torres’ family that the 23-year-old Southwest High School graduate died Friday near Baji, about 140 miles north of Baghdad.
Another North Texas soldier, Army Spc. Jeremy O. Allmon, 22, of Cleburne died Sunday when a homemade bomb detonated near his vehicle in Taji, just north of Baghdad.
In Fort Worth on Saturday, Sergio Torres was preparing to leave for his daughter’s softball game when two soldiers arrived to tell him that his son had been killed.
“The last...