Spc. Jonathan M. Curtis, 24, of Belmont, Mass., died Nov. 1 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky. He joined the Army in September of 2004 and arrived at Fort Campbell, Kentucky in June 2009. While sacrificing his own life, his heroic actions saved the lives of seven of his fellow soldiers. He is survived by his wife, Samantha Foust Curtis, his daughter, Tessa-Marie, and his parents, Philip and Pamela Curtis, his brothers, Brian A. Curtis and wife, Anna, and Paul W. Curtis, his grandparents, Dorothy and Philip C. Curtis, Jr. and Liese Burke. He was preceded in death by his Grandfather, Frank Burke.
Spc. Jonathan M. Curtis, 24, of Belmont, Mass., died Nov. 1 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky. He joined the Army in September of 2004 and arrived at Fort Campbell, Kentucky in June 2009. While sacrificing his own life, his heroic actions saved the lives of seven of his fellow soldiers. He is survived by his wife, Samantha Foust Curtis, his daughter, Tessa-Marie, and his parents, Philip and Pamela Curtis, his brothers, Brian A. Curtis and wife, Anna, and Paul W. Curtis, his grandparents, Dorothy and Philip C. Curtis, Jr. and Liese Burke. He was preceded in death by his Grandfather, Frank Burke.
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