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conducting a security patrol in support of voter registration,” when the attack came said Army spokeswoman Master Sgt. Ann Bennett.
A reporter-photographer team with the Roanoke Times embedded with Company C of the 3rd Battalion reported that the three were riding in the lead vehicle of a convoy about 11 a m. Saturday when a bomb struck their armored Humvee. Another Virginia Guardsman was wounded and is in stable condition and expected to return to duty, the newspaper said.
The Roanoke paper quoted battalion commander Lt. Col. Blake Ortner as saving the deployment '“takes on a whole newr meaning at a time like this.”
The Roanoke paper said “Guardsmen at Camp Ghazni and Camp Tiger prayed aloud when they heard about Saturday’s casualties." The report said that 1st Lt. Steele McGonegal. executive officer of Company C. asked God to welcome the warriors and grant them eternal rest. He praised their courage, hailed them as Virginia sons and led his fellow soldiers in reciting the Lord’s Prayer aloud.
History of 116th
Historically the 116th is recruited heavily in western and southwestern Virginia. This is its first deployment as a unit since World War II when it was part of the 29th Division. Deaths in National Guard units are often doubly poignant since the soldiers come from the same towns and areas. The 116th lost the most men from the same town in World War II when 21 young men from Bedford, Va., died in the landing at Omaha Beach or shortly thereafter.
Roy Cherry of Windham, Maine told the Associated Press
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