Edwin William Roodhouse, Army, Specialist -- Rest In Peace

Edwin William Roodhouse , 36

Army, Specialist
Based: Camp Greaves, South Korea
1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: December 5, 2004
Habbaniya (near), Iraq
Single
Gender: Male
Hometown: San Jose
Burial: Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Ore.

At 33, Edwin Roodhouse shocked family and friends by joining the Army.

A computer network engineer, he had bounced from one Silicon Valley job to the next, following the cycles of boom and bust without ever settling down.

But after 10 years, he was ready for a new career. The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks focused him on doing something for his country and, at his age, the Army was the only service that would accept him.

Roodhouse signed up in 2002. He died in Iraq on Dec. 5, when a homemade bomb blew up the Humvee carrying him and four others. A sergeant [Staff Sgt Marvin Lee Trost III] from Indiana was also killed and three soldiers were injured.

Read the whole LA Times article about Army Specialist Edwin William Roodhouse here and find more here and here with messages and remembrances here.

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Staff Sergeant Marvin Lee Trost was based in Georgia where his wife and three children were at the time of his death. In addition to his mother, who lives in Elkhart County, he also has three brothers who live there as well.