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Andy D. Anderson

    
Saturday, June 10 2006 @ 09:09 AM EDT
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Individuals USwww.washingtonpost.com -- Cpl. Andy D. Anderson of Falls Church, who had starred in high school sports and had just become engaged, was killed in Iraq this week, cutting short what was described as a promising military career.

Anderson, who was in the Army's 46th Engineer Battalion from Fort Rucker, Ala., was building barracks in Ramadi when he was hit by mortar fire and killed Tuesday, relatives said. Another member of the engineer unit was also killed in the attack.

Just a few weeks ago, Anderson, 24, had been home for a visit. He proposed to his high school sweetheart, bought his mother a dining room table for Mother's Day and impressed everybody with his self-confidence and sense of purpose.

"He loved what he was doing," said his mother, Xiomara Mena, who recently moved to Vienna from Falls Church, where Anderson grew up. "He was helping to reconstruct that country. . . . We were so proud of him."

"This is the best we ever saw him. He was the happiest; he had goals," said his brother Rafael Anderson, 21. Rafael and his twin, Randall, are in the Army Reserve.

"He was trying to do 20 years, the full term in the Army . . . because that's what really changed his life," Rafael Anderson said.

Andy Anderson was a 2001 graduate of J.E.B. Stuart High School in the Seven Corners section of Fairfax County and stood out in basketball and football.

He was among the county's basketball scoring leaders in his senior year, with an average of 14.7 points over 19 games, according to published statistics.

In football, Roy Ferri, who coached him for three years, called him "my best player." Although he seemed unfocused in his first season, he seemed to thrive on the discipline of the sport, and by his senior year he was "a real rock" and "played pretty much every down of every game," Ferri said.

After high school, Anderson tried a year of college then joined the Army, as his father, Harold Anderson, a general contractor, had done before him, relatives said.

A grandmother, Ernestine Anderson of Houston, said he was a good-looking man who "was precious to me -- precious, precious, precious," she said.

Relatives called him "loving and caring" and quick to help a stranger.

His mother, a medical assistant, said he stayed in close touch while he was in Iraq.

"He called me on Monday at 4 a.m., and we talked for a while, and he said, 'I love you,' and then he had to go," she said. "That was the last I talked to him."
 
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Andy D. Anderson
Authored by: anonymous on Sunday, June 11 2006 @ 08:12 PM EDT
Andy,
I would like to say thank you to you and the other soldier from your unit (46th Engrs) who was killed in that attack for your service and sacrifice for our Country. And to your family, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy.

"To Achieve"(46th Engrs)
Andy D. Anderson
Authored by: anonymous on Tuesday, June 13 2006 @ 07:09 PM EDT
Thank you for your service to your country and for making the ultimate sacrifice. My deepest sympathy to your family and friends. They should be proud. May you rest in peace soldier!
Andy D. Anderson
Authored by: anonymous on Friday, August 11 2006 @ 03:13 PM EDT
Thank you for devoting your life to make the world a better place for everybody to live. You made the ultimate sacrifice in trying to accomplish your mission. I thank you for using your life to protect ours. For that I in awe of what you are willing to go through to help others.

My greatest sympathy for your family,

REST IN PEACE!
Andy D. Anderson
Authored by: anonymous on Friday, November 10 2006 @ 04:43 PM EST
Thank you for your service to our country. I will keep you and your family in my thoughts this Veterans' Day.

Rest In Peace,

Jim Williams
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