New York soldier killed in Iraq.
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MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. (AP) _ A 22-year-old soldier from upstate New York died in Iraq when his convoy was hit by an explosive in Baghdad.
Army Spc. Irving Medina, of Middletown, was killed Friday. He was a cannon crew member assigned to the 4th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, the Defense Department said Sunday.
At the Medina home, an American flag flew Sunday and a yellow ribbon was on the front porch. Ana Medina said a West Point officer and chaplain brought the news Friday about her son, whose twin brother Ivan had recently returned from 11 months in Iraq.
"I told them no news is good news," Ivan Medina told the Times Herald-Record of Middletown. "But news came. And like always, it was bad."
"We all thought we'd see him again," said Jorge Medina, their father. "I heard her crying and came over and, in Spanish, she told me to tell them to go away, to get out of here."
His older sister Jenny Medina, a sergeant in the Army Reserves assigned to JAG in Coral Gables, Fla., had a copy of Irving's last email, sent to a friend. "It has been a real experience out here," he wrote. "I've seen some of the saddest things out here." |
