Army Sgt. Gary A. Eckert Jr.
Died May 08, 2005 serving during Operation Iraqi Freedom24, of Toledo, Ohio; assigned to the 983rd Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army Reserve, Monclova, Ohio; died May 8 in Balad, Iraq, of injuries sustained earlier that day when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee in Samarra, Iraq.