Media General News Service
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
FREDERICKSBURG -- A paratrooper from Spotsylvania County was among nine
soldiers to die in Iraq on Monday, his family said today.
Staff Sgt. Robert Stanley, 27, graduated from Spotsylvania High School and
was on his third combat tour.
"He didn't like war, but he thought he was helping the people over there,"
said his father Robert Stanley, who owns Shannon Airport in Spotsylvania.
A member of the 82nd Airborne Division in Fayetteville, N.C., the younger
Stanley had previously served in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks and was
on his second tour in Iraq. He had also been sent to New Orleans in the
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Stanley was killed in one of two bomb blasts north of Baghdad on Monday, the
deadliest day for U.S. soldiers since the security crackdown in the Iraqi
capital started last month.
He leaves behind a wife, his parents and a sister
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