Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Two of seven 82d Airborne sargeants dead in Iraq

On August 19th the New York Times published an OpEd written by seven 82d Airborne Division sergeants nearing the end of their tours in Iraq.

This morning Greg Mitchell of Editor & Publisher reports that two of those seven soldiers were killed in a vehicle accident in Western Baghdad. Sgt. Omar Mora (from Texas City, TX) and Sgt. Yance Gray (Ismay, MT) died Monday. Each is survived by a wife and daughter.

Another of the seven, Staff Sergeant Jeremy Murphy, an Army Ranger and reconnaissance team leader, was shot in the head as the OpEd was being prepared for publication last August. He is being treated in a military hospital in the United States and is expected to survive.

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