Vehicle accident kills soldier in Iraq

nwsource.com     Jul 18, 2008          

A memorial service for James Paroline, the man who died last week after he was fatally punched while gardening inside a traffic circle near... Fort Lewis Fort Lewis-based Staff Sgt. David W. Textor, 27, assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), died Tuesday in Mosul, Iraq, of injuries suffered from a noncombat vehicle accident, the Department of Defense disclosed Thursday. According to military records, Textor, a weapons sergeant assigned to Company A, was from Jamestown, N.Y. Everett Vandals sought in cemetery damage Police are searching for vandals who struck a cemetery and mausoleum overnight, causing more than $12,000 in damage. About 8:30 a.m. Thursday, officers arrived at Evergreen Cemetery in the 4500 block of Broadway Avenue and found numerous headstones that had been vandalized and knocked... [read full story]                    


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