Andrew W. Brown
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Age: 22
From: Pleasant Mount, Pa.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 509th Infantry, Fort Polk, La.
Incident: Army Sgt. Andrew W. Brown died Oct. 8 in Baghdad of injuries sustained Oct. 1 when his patrol vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device.
Died: October 08, 2004
Wayne County native killed in Iraq
Associated Press
PLEASANT MOUNT, Pa. — An active-duty soldier from northeast Pennsylvania died Friday in Iraq, a week after he was injured when his patrol vehicle was struck by an explosive device, the Defense Department said.
Sgt. Andrew W. Brown, 22, of Pleasant Mount in Wayne County, had been in Iraq since June, his mother, Lourdes Brown, said Sunday night.
Brown, who died in Baghdad, was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment, based at Fort Polk, La., according to a Defense Department news release.
“I had talked to him about a week ago,” Lourdes Brown said. “He was fine.”
Military officials have given the family some information about how he died, but they were still trying to gather more details, she said.
She declined to elaborate on her son’s life, saying the news was “still very raw.”
“We’re just waiting for him to come home so we can...