Army Spc. Carl F. Curran

Died May 16, 2004 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom

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22, of Union City, Pa.; assigned to Battery C, 1st Battalion, 107th Field Artillery Regiment, Army National Guard, Oil City, Pa.; killed May 16 when his vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in Karmah, Iraq.

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Spc. Carl F. Curran married his wife, Dianna, about a month before he deployed, and had an infant daughter. Curran, 22, of Union City, Pa., was a member of a Pennsylvania National Guard unit based near Pittsburgh. He died May 16 after an explosion flipped his Humvee off a bridge near Fallujah, Iraq.

— Associated Press