As of Thursday, 11 U.S. service members from North Dakota or serving with North Dakota military units have been reported killed while on duty in Iraq:
- Spc. Dennis Ferderer Jr., 20, of New Salem. Killed Nov. 2, 2005, in an attack on a Humvee near Ad Duluiyah, north of Baghdad.
- Spc. Cody Wentz, 21, of Williston. Killed Nov. 4, 2004, in an attack on a Humvee near Balad.
- Spc. Jon Fettig, 30, of Dickinson. Killed July 22, 2003, in an attack on a convoy near Ar Ramadi.
- Pfc. Sheldon Hawk Eagle, 21, of Grand Forks. Killed Nov. 15, 2003, when two Black Hawk helicopters crashed in Mosul.
- Spc. Thomas Sweet II, 23, of Bismarck. Died Nov. 27, 2003, in Junction City from a noncombatrelated gunshot wound.
- Staff Sgt. Ken Hendrickson, 41, of Bismarck. Killed Jan. 24, 2004, when a bomb struck a four-vehicle convoy north of Fallujah.
- Sgt. Keith Smette, 25, of Makoti. Killed Jan. 24, 2004, when a bomb struck a fourvehicle convoy north of Fallujah.
- Spc. Philip Brown, 21, of Jamestown. Died May 8, 2004, after being wounded by an explosive while on foot patrol.
- Spc. James Holmes, 28, East Grand Forks, Minn. Died May 8, 2004, in Landstuhl, Germany, from wounds suffered May 3 when a roadside bomb exploded while he was on vehicle patrol.
- Staff Sgt. Lance Koenig, 33, of Fargo. Died Sept. 22, 2004, near Tikrit when a bomb exploded while he was inspecting a suspicious roadside object.
- Pvt. 1st Class Anthony Monroe, 21, of Bismarck. Died Oct. 10, 2004.
