Army Sgt. Shawn A. Graham

Died September 25, 2005 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom

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34, of Red Oak, Texas; assigned to the 124th Cavalry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division, Texas Army National Guard, Fort Worth, Texas; died Sept. 25 in Baghdad of injuries sustained earlier that day when the vehicle in which he was riding accidentally rolled over in Balad, Iraq.

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Soldier with Pennsylvania roots killed in Iraq

Associated Press

GROVE CITY, Pa. — A soldier with western Pennsylvania ties was killed in Iraq when his vehicle rolled over, according to the military and his family.

Sgt. Shawn A. Graham, 34, of Brazoria, Texas, was killed in Baghdad on Sunday, the Army said. Graham is originally from Grove City, Mercer County, where the Cunningham Funeral Home will handle arrangements once his body is returned, his family said.

Graham’s mother, Kathleen, said her son was happy to be sent to Iraq in January, because his father and brother had already been sent to the Middle East.

“At one point, I had all three there — two in Iraq and one in Afghanistan,” Kathleen Graham said. “He was just so upset when he found out his dad (and brother) got activated before him. He just thought, ‘If they can go, why can’t I go?”’

Graham’s father, Thomas, returned less than two months ago from Afghanistan, where he served with the Indiana National Guard, she said. Nicholas Graham, a brother, returned in March after serving in Iraq with the Marines.

Sgt. Shawn Graham was a member of the Army National Guard’s 124th Cavalry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division, out of Fort Worth, Texas.

Graham served 10 years in the Marines after graduating from Grove City High School in 1989. He was inactive for a year, then was reactivated after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. By then he had moved to Texas where he joined the National Guard.

Graham’s wife, Jeannette, still lives in Brazoria.