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  • Soldier who survived 9/11 attack on Pentagon dies in Iraq

    08/13/2003 1:29:29 PM PDT · by bedolido · 14 replies · 204+ views
    Associated Press ^ | 08/13/03 | Staff Writer
    'Somebody just said today that he was born in the military, but he wasn't. It was just that he loved it.' GUILFORD, Conn. — A U.S. Army counterintelligence analyst whose Pentagon office was struck by the hijacked jetliner on Sept. 11, 2001, has died of a pulmonary embolism while serving in Iraq, his father said Wednesday. Military officials notified the family of Staff Sgt. Richard S. Eaton Jr. on Tuesday, his father — also Richard Eaton — said. “Somebody just said today that he was born in the military, but he wasn’t,” the elder Eaton said. “It was just that...
  • DoD Identifies Army Casualty

    08/13/2003 2:51:12 PM PDT · by 68skylark · 12 replies · 165+ views
    U. S. Department of Defense ^ | April 13, 2003 | U. S. Department of Defense
    The Department of Defense announced today that Staff Sgt. Richard S. Eaton Jr., 37, of Guilford, Conn., died on August 12 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. A fellow soldier tried to wake Eaton and noticed he was not breathing. Eaton was assigned to the 323rd Military Intelligence Battalion, U.S. Army Reserves, based at Fort Meade, Md. Incident is under investigation.