Lo, Edmond Lam
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Verified Active Duty, ARMY, 797TH ORDNANCE COMPANY, 79TH ORDNANCE BATTALION, FORT HOOD, TX, SSG Lo, Edmond Lam of SALEM, NH, 23, died in SAMARRA CITY, IRAQ on June 13, 2009. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
SSG Lo, Edmond Lam, 23 years old, grew up in SALEM, NH and served as Active Duty in the ARMY with 797TH ORDNANCE COMPANY, 79TH ORDNANCE BATTALION, FORT HOOD, TX during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
On June 13, 2009, he died in SAMARRA CITY, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?. His name entered the Defense Casualty Analysis System that day.
Operation Iraqi Freedom began March 19, 2003 with the US-led invasion. The stated justification ? weapons of mass destruction ? was never found. Seven years of occupation, insurgency, and sectarian war followed, killing 4,418 Americans and an estimated 200,000 Iraqi civilians.
The ARMY classified his death as "HOSTILE" ? a category that matters to the families who must make sense of it. His name is documented in the Defense Casualty Analysis System at https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/conflictCasualties/oif.
Explore Further
Lo, Edmond Lam was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom (from March 2003 to August 2010). The conflict concluded in August 2010. See the full roster of those killed in this conflict.
Among those documented in the same conflict: Kennedy, Brian Matthew, Beaupre, Ryan Anthony, Gutierrez, Jose, Waters-bey, Kendall Damon.
