Anthony E. Butterfield, 19

Marines, Lance Corporal

Based: Twentynine Palms, Calif.

3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force

Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom

Died: July 29, 2006

Rawah, Iraq

Single

Gender: Male

Hometown: Clovis

High School: Buchanan High (Clovis)

Burial: Clovis Cemetery, Clovis, Calif.

Another soldier in Butterfield's unit wrote to his family that Butterfield died while trying to prevent a suicide bomber from detonating a gasoline tanker filled with explosives.

Jeffery S. Brown, 08/09/2006

Joseph A. Graves, 07/25/2006

14 memories of Anthony E. Butterfield

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I moved to Clovis the summer before third grade. I met Tony in a barefoot street race in front of his best friend David's house. The following summer it was three flies up by the orchards with Tony, David, Tyler, Adrian, and James, and me the only girl in the dang neighborhood under age 15. The summer after that I remember being paralyzed by fear while Tony and David tried to get me to sneak sips strawberry kiwi wine coolers from the garage refrigerator--it didn't work, I was a square, but they just laughed. I have many fond memories of childhood with Tony all throughout them. I didn't realize how prevalent his presence was in my formative years until he was gone. We didn't talk much through high school, but I do remember his great smile, frequent laughter, and love for the ladies! Tony the man, the myth, the legend and one of my first childhood friends. May God Bless his family at this time. Thinking of you and the other great losses in the BHS family.

” — Rosemary, May 25, 2015 at 3:15 a.m.

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