(Ben Bloker/Stars and Stripes)

Baumholder, Germany, Aug. 5, 2008: Soldiers pay their respects to Sgt. James A. McHale during a memorial ceremony Tuesday at a chapel in Baumholder. McHale, 31, a soldier assigned to the 40th Engineer Battalion, died July 30 from wounds he received when a roadside bomb detonated near Nahrawan, Iraq, on July 22.