Army identifies 5 Americans killed in Egypt helicopter crash
Troy University dedicates building named for John Lewis
TROY, Ala. – An Alabama university that in the 1950s declined to admit future U.S. Rep. John Lewis has dedicated a main campus building in honor of the late civil rights icon.
University officials dedicated John Robert Lewis Hall in a ceremony Friday that included congressional representatives and members of the Lewis family.
“It is the right thing to do to name this building for a great man,” Troy Chancellor Dr. Jack Hawkins, Jr. said in a statement.
The Troy University Board of Trustees in August voted to rename historic Bibb Graves Hall – named for a former Alabama governor who had ties to the Ku Klux Klan– in honor of Lewis.
WASHINGTON – The Army on Saturday identified the five American soldiers killed in a helicopter crash this week while on a peacekeeping mission in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
The soldiers were part of an international force that monitors the four-decade-old Israeli-egyptian peace agreement. The Multinational Force and Observers said the soldiers were on a routine mission when the Black Hawk helicopter crashed Thursday near Sharm el-sheikh, a popular Egyptian resort on the Red Sea.
The Army identified the dead as Capt. Seth Vernon Vandekamp, 31, from Katy, Texas; Chief Warrant Officer 3 Dallas Gearld Garza, 34, from Fayetteville, North Carolina; Chief Warrant Officer 2 Marwan Sameh Ghabour, 27, from Marlborough, Massachusetts; Staff Sgt. Kyle Robert Mckee, 35, from Painesville, Ohio; and Sgt. Jeremy Cain Sherman, 23, from Watseka, Illinois.