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Delaware soldier killed in Iraq
RANDALL CHASE
Associated Press

DOVER, Del. - A Delaware native who fulfilled his childhood dream of becoming a career soldier has been killed in Iraq, family members said Monday.

Army Sgt. 1st Class James "Shawn" Moudy, 37, a member of the 71st Calvary Regiment of the 10th Mountain Division, based at Fort Drum, N.Y., was killed about 6 a.m. local time Sunday in Baghdad, his mother said.

"He was on patrol and he was in a Humvee and one of IEDs - the roadside bombs - exploded, and he was killed instantly," Thelma Moudy said in a telephone interview from her Newark home.

Shawn Moudy joined the Army after graduating from Tatnall School in Wilmington, where he played football and was a goalkeeper for the school's first lacrosse squad, and attending Marion Military Institute in Alabama for a year.

"He had wanted to be solider ever since he was a child," his mother said, recalling how her young son, who had several uncles who served in the military, constantly drew pictures of soldiers.

After earning a nomination to the Coast Guard Academy, the young Moudy, an avid hunter and fisherman, opted instead for the Army and the life of a noncommissioned officer.