Ross A. Clevenger

Age:		21
Hometown:		Kennewick, WA
Date of Death:		2/08/07
Incident Location:		Anbar province

Branch of Military:		Army
Rank:		Sgt.
Unit:		321st Engineer Battalion
Unit's Base:		Boise, ID

He didn't have trouble entertaining himself, whether playing video games and watching movies or wandering off on a trail alone while camping in the woods. After one family camping trip, Clevenger showed the others pictures he had taken, and they were surprised at the sights he had discovered. "They said, 'Wow, where were you?' He found stuff they didn't see," recalled Nancy George, Loren Clevenger's fiance. Ross also enjoyed snowboarding, motorcycles, horseback riding and fishing. An Army reservist, he planned to go into nursing after his service was up. He liked to say some day he would buy a cabin, and his dad could come to live with him when he got old. Clevenger volunteered to work in demolition as a reservist so he could get a large college scholarship, his father said. The family didn't like him working with explosives, but they were proud he worked to save lives by clearing explosives away. He told them he believed in what he was doing and the mission in Iraq.