A Hero to remember

Jon-Erik Loney, who was a specialist in the 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry, drove a Bradley fighting vehicle.

A roadside bomb killed Loney, a 2003 Danville High graduate, in Iraq on Tuesday. He was 21.

Loney was the 2,881st soldier killed since the Iraq war began in March 2003. Two more American soldiers died that day.

The grandfather said Loney enjoyed being in the military and that he and his wife supported him 100 percent.
"The military was the thing he wanted to do," Allen Kaylor said. "He was an all-around great kid. He's going to be dearly missed."