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Fort Lewis mourns two more

May- 4-2005 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

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MICHAEL GILBERT; The News Tribune

Fort Lewis said farewell Tuesday to two more of its soldiers who were killed in Iraq, an inspiring young officer and a quiet tanker who was on his second tour of the country.

Mourners said Lt. William Edens, 29, was a platoon leader admired by his men. He leaves a wife, Christy, who will graduate from medical school later this month.

Sgt. Eric Morris, 31, was two months into his second trip to Iraq, after having spent 15 months there in 2003-04. His wife, Jolene, and his 6-year-old twin stepdaughters, Chyann and Chyna, held each other close in the front row at the Main Post Chapel throughout Tuesday’s memorial ceremony.

“They do not get any easier,” the Fort Lewis commanding general, Lt. Gen. James Dubik, said afterward of the post’s losses. “Every one of these represents a father that is missing, a mother, or a brother or a son.”

Edens, Morris and two soldiers from Fort Carson, Colo., were killed Thursday when an improvised bomb exploded as their Stryker armored vehicle passed by near Tal Afar. Two other soldiers were wounded.

It was the most lethal attack so far on a Stryker since the vehicle’s introduction into Iraq in December 2003. Until Thursday’s bombing, none of hundreds of insurgent attacks had ever claimed the life of more than one U.S. soldier aboard one of the wheeled armored vehicles.

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