A Missouri Army National Guard sergeant has been killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq. The Guard says Lee Roy Parrish of Lebanon died of injuries suffered October 7th. Parrish was a member of the 110th Engineer Battalion, headquartered in Kansas City. Another member of the 110th, Specialist John Edward Wood of Humboldt, Kansas, was killed in the same explosion. Parrish had been mobilized since August of last year. His unit went overseas in November 2005. It provides convoy security and works to remove roadside bombs set along routes in Iraq.



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