Lee D. Todacheene

Died: April 6, 2004

Rank: Sergeant

Unit: 1st Battalion, 77th Armor Regiment, 1st Infantry Division

Branch: U.S. Army

Sergeant Lee D. Todacheene, an Army medical specialist attached to the 1st Battalion, 77th Armor Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, Schweinfurt, Germany, was killed on April 6, 2004, while on guard duty in Balad, Iraq. After a funeral mass was celebrated at Saint Isabel Church in Lukachukai, Arizona, Todacheene was buried in the Saint Isa­belle Community Cemetery on April 12, 2004. He was the first Navajo tribe member to be killed in the Iraq war.