Army Pvt Prewitt was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, Fort Benning, Georgia. Prewitt was assigned to the seemingly safer job of driving ammunition and supplies to the tankers. The Iraqis were trying to blow up the fuel and ammunition used to support the American advance and were waging a firefight. As the fire intensified, the drivers were ordered to abandon their vehicles and to take cover inside the compound. As soon as Prewitt got out of his truck, he was hit by a tracer round in his right thigh. He tried to keep moving, dragging himself backward from his HEMMT using the palms of his hands. The tracer rounds that hit him also struck the ammunition on his vehicle, igniting a fire and eventually an explosion. He was in the middle of a shooting gallery, severely injured and alone. As the bullets whizzed across the highway, Sgt Harrison, the medic, heard somebody yelling for a medic and was alarmed to see Prewitt crawling in the street. ''I looked around,'' he recalled. ''Nobody was going to get him.'' The sergeant scaled the fence and headed toward the injured private. He handed his M-16 rifle to a comrade, told him to give him covering fire and then scaled the fence of the compound and headed for the injured private, first by crawling, then by sprinting. The firefight was intensifying and Prewitt said he felt numb. So the sergeant handed him his 9-millimeter pistol and told him to shoot any attackers. ''I can't see,'' Prewitt said. The soldier's pupils were dilated and he was in shock. ''You'll be O.K,'' Sgt Harrison responded. ''If I tell you just squeeze the trigger.'' After Prewitt was carried to headquarters, a helicopter was summoned. The private's artery appeared to have been severed and he needed be to taken to a surgical team in the rear. The soldiers marked out a landing zone and waited. Eventually, the soldiers got the word that the weather at the helicopter airfield was too bad to fly. The news went down hard. Now, after waiting and struggling to save the Prewitt they would have to drive him to the rear. A convoy was organized and the soldiers began to take him back, taking fire as they moved down the same road they had just fought their way up - he died on route. Asked if he still thought about Prewitt, Sgt Harrison said he thinks about him every day. ''I see him,'' Sergeant Harrison said. ''I see him crawling back. I see him there by himself. I see him looking up at me for relief. I see him all the time. I did not know that much about him. I never lost anybody until then.'' Kelley is remembered as a young man with an ever-present grin and a great sense of humor. He was a 1997 graduate of Cathedral Christian School. Kelley was an avid soccer player and dearly loved Auburn football. He enlisted in the Army in 2001 and was deployed in January 2003. In his last letter home, he told his father he wished he was back in Alabama and that it wouldn't be long before he'd be calling for a ride home. He liked to ride his personal watercraft on Lake Logan Martin, where they owned a mobile home. He loved the lake and he loved the outdoors.