Gregg Garvey of Keystone Heights, Florida lost his son Army Sergeant Justin Garvey, on July 20, 2003 when ambushed in Tallifar, Iraq. Sergeant Garvey voluntarily went in search of his men who had lost radio signal in the field in order to make sure they were okay. Within minutes of their base, Sergeant Garvey and the other soldiers with him were ambushed. Justin Garvey was member of the 101st Airborne, Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

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• Since losing his son in the Iraq war in 2003, a Florida man has embarked on an ambitious project to place monuments in the hometowns of every soldier who has died in the conflict. Gregg Garvey, of Keystone Heights, Fla., felt it wasn't enough just to honor his own son Sgt. Justin W. Garvey, 23. He wanted to pay tribute to all 1,584 soldiers killed to date in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  
  "This is our finest generation. They have so many alternatives yet they choose to serve,' said Garvey, 50. "They are all my kids now and they deserve nothing less from me." Whittier (Cal.) Daily News, 2/8/05