While attempting to aid a fellow soldier who was securing a bridge for safe transport, Staff Sergeant Robert Anthony “Tony” Stever was killed by enemy forces on April 8, 2003.  Without the safety of his M88 tank retriever, destroyed by fire two weeks earlier by enemy forces, Tony bravely volunteered to cross the bridge to help a friend in need; the Army posthumously awarded him the Bronze Star and Silver Star.  Although his family was concerned for his safety while in Iraq and “told him not to volunteer for any missions, he did,” says his mother, Stella Yarborough.  While they were, of course, concerned for him, she “was very proud of him” and “always supported him” because “Tony was adventuresome [and] liked the moving around.”