Posted at 5:40 p.m., Thursday, March 18, 2004
Schofield soldier dies of wounds from Iraq
Associated Press
A soldier from Hawai'i's 25th Infantry Division died today, one week after the Humvee he was riding in was struck by a homemade bomb in Iraq.
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| Pfc. Ernest Sutphin, 21, was a native of Parkersburg, W.Va. |
Pfc. Ernest Sutphin was taken off life support at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, said his aunt, Faye Pennell of the Greensboro, N.C., area.
Sutphin was injured March 11 northeast of Habbiniyah in the Sunni Triangle. The other two American soldiers in the Humvee were killed.
Sutphin's mother and father were at the hospital with him when he died, Pennell said in a telephone interview.
Sutphin, 21, a native of Parkersburg, W. Va., hoped to earn money for college, where he planned to major in either psychiatry or law, Pennell said. "He joined the Army because he wanted to make something of his life," she said. "He wanted a career."
"He was such a wonderful role model," she said. "All his cousins and his sister looked up to him."
Sutphin, who was single, grew up in Parkersburg and graduated from Parkersburg High School in 2001. His family later relocated to North Carolina, where he planned to live after getting out of the service, his aunt said.
