Byron J. Fouty
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Age: 19
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Assigned to the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y. was captured May 12, 2007 by enemy forces in Jurf es Sakhr, Iraq, when his unit was attacked by insurgents using automatic fire and explosives. His body was recovered July 8, 2008 in Iraq. Also
Incident: Army Spc. Byron J. Fouty was killed were Staff Sgt. Alex R. Jimenez, Pfc. Joseph J. Anzack, Jr., Sgt. 1st Class James D. Connell, Jr., Pfc. Daniel W. Courneya, Cpl. Christopher E. Murphy and Sgt. Anthony J. Schober.
Died: July 08, 2008
By Korie Wilkins and Cecil Angel
Detroit Free Press
Spc. Byron Fouty is finally coming home.
For 14 months, family, friends and even strangers gathered at vigils, praying for the safe return of Fouty, who was captured with two other soldiers after an al-Qaida ambush outside Baghdad, Iraq. Now they are mourning and remembering the tough-but-kind man who grew up in Walled Lake and Lake Orion and died serving his country.
Military officials said Friday the skeletal remains of Fouty and Sgt. Alex Jimenez of Lawrence, Mass., were in Dover, Del., where autopsies will be performed. Their remains will be turned over to their families, said Maj. Nathan Banks, Army spokesman at the Pentagon. Military personnel notified Fouty’s family Thursday that the men’s remains were found the day before.
Funeral arrangements for Fouty — who would have been 20 in April — are pending.
“We wanted them home,”...