Sgt. Raymond J. Plouhar, 30, died in a roadside bombing in Iraq"while conducting combat operations" in Iraq's volatile Anbar province, according to a Defense Department announcement yesterday.
From the Yahoo news story:
Plouhar, who was stationed at Camp Pendleton, Calif., had taken four years off from active duty to serve as a recruiter in Flint after donating one of his kidneys to his uncle. He is seen in the 2004 film [Fahrenheit 9/11] approaching prospective recruits in a mall parking lot."It's better to get them when they're in ones and twos and work on them that way," he says in the film.
Plouhar is survived by his wife and two children, age 5 and 9, who live in Arizona.