With much respect to all the brave men and women presently fighting and who have lost their lives. This is a small but special tribute to all the black women of color fallen soldiers.  My prayers are with all the fallen soldiers and the loved ones they left behind. I also pray for this war to end and for everyone's safe return. 

My apologies if I left anyone out, please feel free to contact me.

Tributetoblackwomen.com 2006

Army Pfc. Karina S. Lau

November  02, 2003

20, of Livingston, Calif.; assigned to the 16th Signal Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas; killed Nov. 2 in an attack on a CH-47 Chinook helicopter near Fallujah, Iraq.

Spc. Rachel Lacy

2003

22, died after receiving a series of shots in preparation for deployment to Afghanistan. She became ill right after the inoculations,

Army Sgt. Keicia M. Hines

January 14, 2004

27, of Citrus Heights, Calif.; assigned to the 108th Military Police, Combat Support Co., Fort Bragg, N.C. died Jan. 14 when she was struck by a vehicle on Mosul Airfield in Mosul, Iraq.

Army Capt. Gussie M. Jones

March 07, 2004

41, of Raleigh, Ark.; assigned to the 31st Combat Support Hospital, Fort Bliss, Texas; died of a non-combat realted cause on March 7 in Baghdad.

Suffered a heart attack and died in the Baghdad hospital where she worked as a surgical nurse.

Army Spc. Tyanna S. Avery-Felder

April 07, 2004

22, of Bridgeport, Conn.; assigned to the 296th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash.; died April 7 in Mosul, Iraq, of injuries sustained April 4 when her convoy vehicle was hit with an improvised explosive device in Balad, Iraq.

Army Pfc. Leslie D. Jackson

May 20, 2004

18, of Richmond, Va.; assigned to A Company, 115th Forward Support Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division, Ft. Hood, Texas; killed May 20 when her military vehicle hit an improvised explosive device as she was returning to Camp Eagle in Baghdad.

Army Sgt. Pamela G. Osbourne

October 11, 2004

38, of Hollywood, Fla.; assigned to Division Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas; killed Oct. 11 when two rockets

hit her camp in Baghdad.

Army Spc. Katrina L. Bell - Johnson
 

February 16, 2005

32, of Orangeburg, S.C.; assigned to the 418th Transportation Company, 180th Transportation Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas; killed Feb. 16 in a vehicle accident in Baqubah, Iraq.

Army Spc. Lizbeth Robles

March 01, 2005

31, of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico; assigned to the 360th Transportation Company, 68th Corps Support Battalion, 43rd Area Support Group, Fort Carson, Colo.; died March 1 at the 228th Command Support Hospital in Tikirt, Iraq, from injuries sustained Feb. 28 in a military vehicle accident in Bayji, Iraq.

Army Sgt. Maj. Barbaralien Banks

April 06, 2005

41, of Harvey, La.; assigned to Division Artillery, 25th Infantry Division (Light), Schofield Barracks, Hawaii; killed April 6 when the CH-47 helicopter in which she was riding crashed in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Fifteen service members were killed or are unaccounted for in the crash.

Army Spc. Aleina Ramirez Gonzalez

April 15, 2005

33, of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico; assigned to the 3rd Brigade Troop Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.; killed April 15 when a mortar struck her forward operating base in Tikrit, Iraq.

Marine Cpl. Ramona M. Valdez

June 23, 2005

20, of The Bronx, N.Y.; assigned to Headquarters Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.; killed June 23 when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near her convoy vehicle in Fallujah, Iraq

Army Spc. Toccara R. Green
 

August 14, 2005

23, of Rosedale, Md.; assigned to the 57th Transportation Company, 548th Corps Support Battalion, Fort Drum, N.Y.; killed Aug. 14 when multiple improvised explosive devices detonated near her unit during convoy operations in Asad, Iraq

Pvt. Lavena L. Johnson

July 19, 2005

19, of Florissant, Mo.; assigned to the 129th Corps Support Battalion, Fort Campbell, Ky.; died July 19 of non-combat-related injuries in Balad, Iraq.
Under investigation

Lavena Johnson's Petition

Army Sgt. Julia V. Atkins

December 10, 2005

22, of Bossier City, La.; assigned to the 64th Military Police Company, 720th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas; killed Dec. 10 when an improvised explosive device detonated near her Humvee during patrol operations in Baghdad

Army Sgt. Wakkuna A. Jackson

August 19, 2006

21, of Jacksonville, Fla.; assigned to the 710th Combat Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.; killed Aug. 19 when an improvised explosive device detonated near her convoy vehicle in Kunar, Afghanistan.

Army 2nd Lt. Emily J.T. Perez

September 12, 2006

23, of Texas; assigned to the 204th Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas; died Sept. 12 of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near her Humvee during combat operations in Kifl, Iraq

*Special Poem for Emily

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