Two Soldiers from Listening Area Killed Overseas in One Day

The war in Iraq has claimed another US solder from east central Illinois. The Defense Department says 35 year old Army Major David Audo of Saint Joseph was killed Tuesday in Baghdad in a non-combat related incident. A press release only says that the incident remains under investigation. Audo was a 1992 graduate of Saint Joseph Ogden High School.

Meanwhile, a soldier from western Indiana is among more than a dozen Americans killed in action this week in Afghanistan, with President Barack Obama taking part in the arrival transfer of his body at Dover Air Force Base.

Army Sgt. Dale R. Griffin was a 1999 graduate of Terre Haute South High School. His mother says he joined the Army soon after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Griffin was a state runner-up in wrestling as a high school senior. Griffin was among 18 U.S. military personnel and drug agents whose bodies arrived early Thursday at the Air Force base in Delaware. The flag-draped remains of Griffin were carried off a plane by six soldiers as Obama and others in a line of honor saluted.