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Army Sgt. Gary A. Eckert Jr.
Died May 8, 2005 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom
24, 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.
