Pekin resident dies in Iraq
He wasn’t wearing a uniform, but try telling me this man wasn’t one of the good guys:
A North Carolina man who graduated from Pekin High School in 1984 was killed in Iraq last week by a roadside bomb of the kind he was employed to remove, a family member said Saturday.
Richard Todd Rhodes, 40, of Wilmington, N.C., died Thursday when his armored vehicle was struck by the improvised explosive device, according to information provided by his brother-in-law Mark Klokkenga of Dunlap.
My sympathies to his family and friends.
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