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Clarence L. Floyd Jr

    
Tuesday, December 13 2005 @ 08:23 AM EST
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Newsday -- NEWARK, N.J. -- A 101st Airborne Division soldier with close ties to New Jersey was killed by small arms fire Saturday in Taji, Iraq, when his unit was attacked by enemy forces, the Army said.

Sgt. Clarence L. Floyd Jr., 28, was a cannon crew member assigned to the 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team based at Fort Campbell, Ky. His mother and stepfather, Valerie and James Kelly, live in Newark.

Floyd, a father of five, was killed in Taji, about 20 miles north of Baghdad. Family members said he was shot in the head by a sniper.

Floyd joined the Army in October 2003, after holding a succession of minimum-wage jobs in New York City, hoping to be able to better provide for his family, his parents told The Star-Ledger of Newark.

He was deployed to Iraq at the end of September.



"He didn't go there because he wanted to go," James Kelly said. "He went there because he had to go. If these kids had jobs and opportunity, they wouldn't even enlist."

Floyd was born and raised in Harlem. He earned his high school diploma while a member of the Job Corps, a federally administered education and job training program. While in the Job Corps, he assisted in relief operations in North Carolina following Hurricane Floyd in 1999.

He will be buried in Calverton National Cemetery in Suffolk County, N.Y.

Floyd is one of three soldiers with the 101st Airborne killed in Iraq since Friday. The names of the other two soldiers were not released Monday evening, Fort Campbell spokeswoman Kelly Tyler said.

Counting the three soldiers' deaths, 29 troops from Fort Campbell have been killed since the 101st Airborne returned to Iraq for a second yearlong tour starting in September.
 
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Clarence L. Floyd Jr
Authored by: anonymous on Thursday, December 15 2005 @ 12:22 PM EST
TO THE FLOYD FAMILY FROM THE WAHL FAMILY. DEEPLY SADDEN OF THE NEWS OF CLARENCE. HE HAS NOT DIED IN VAIN. HE IS AN AMERICAN HERO!*********NATIONAL-PINELAWN IN FARMINGDALE IS OPEN AT REQUEST BY THE FAMILY! IT IS ALOT CLOSER THEN CALVERTON TO YOUR HOME. WE LOST OUR SON. AN MY TEARS NEVER STOPPED, WITH CALRENCE THOSE SAME VERY TEARS ARE FOR HIM. HE IS LIKE ANOTHER SON, SO IMPORTANT AND SPECIAL. GOD BLESS!
Clarence L. Floyd Jr
Authored by: anonymous on Friday, December 16 2005 @ 08:37 PM EST
To the Floyd family,You all are in my prayers and have my deepest sympathy. I can honsetly say I knew an HERO!! Von, was more than a cousin to me, he was the bother I never had. I will always remember the good times and long talks we shared, you will always be in my heart, I miss you.

Love Rita










Clarence L. Floyd Jr
Authored by: anonymous on Saturday, December 17 2005 @ 12:35 AM EST
To the Floyd family,

You have my deepest sympathy, Von will be greatly missed! I will miss those suprise calls that I used to get every month just to check on Rita and I. I remember when he told us that he joined the Army, and I fussed about it, but I was proud of him. Von told me that joining the army was what he wanted to do, and all I could say was, "okay cuz, I support you." He was a soilder for our nation, now he's a soilder for God! Deidra, please keep your head up and remember that Von is now watching over all of us. If you ever need me, I'm only a phone call away. God Bless all of you!

Tonya
Clarence L. Floyd Jr
Authored by: anonymous on Monday, December 19 2005 @ 10:59 AM EST
To: the Floyd family,

I am so sorry for your loss, it's always hard to lose a loved one, but it should be comforting to know he died honorably. May God carry you though this rough time. Rhonda
Clarence L. Floyd Jr
Authored by: anonymous on Friday, December 30 2005 @ 09:40 PM EST
Clarence,
I would like to say thank you to you and the two other soldiers who were also killed in that firefight for your service and sacrifice for our Country. And to your family, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy.

"Volens Et Potens"(Willing And Able)320th FA Motto
Clarence L. Floyd Jr
Authored by: anonymous on Sunday, July 09 2006 @ 01:00 AM EDT
Dear Floyd and Kelly family
i just want to send my love to the family in these hard days and months to come he will always be loved and missed but never forgotten im so sorry that this happen very sorry he was my best friend this shouldnt of never happen he was to good of a person. again im so very sorry.he will be in my prayers.

love T.T

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